In Putin's Footsteps

NOTES

1

Igor Zotov, then editor at Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Independent Newspaper), in conversation with the authors, August 2016.

2

“Russia Election: Vladimir Putin Wins by Big Margin,” BBC, March 19, 2018.

3

“Novogodnee Obrashchenie Prezidenta Rossii” [New Year’s Address of the President of Russia], Channel 1, December 31, 2016.

4

“Russia GDP 1989–2018,” Trading Economics, https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp.

5

Lauren Carroll, “Obama: US Spends More on Military Than Next 8 Nations Combined,” Politifact, January 13, 2016.

6

Yevgeny Kalyukov, “Uroven Bezrabotitsy V Rossii Vpervye Za Tri Goda Upal Nizhe 5%” [For the First Time in Three Years Unemployment Fell to Under Five Percent], RBC, September 19, 2017.

7

Lynn Berry, “Putin’s Choice of Words Shed Light on Ukraine,” Associated Press, April 17, 2014.

8

Andrew Roth, “Vladimir Putin Secures Landslide Victory in Russian Election,” Guardian, March 18, 2018.

1

This and the following quote are from “Transcript: Putin Says Russia Will Protect the Rights of Russians Abroad,” Washington Post, March 18, 2014.

2

Viktoria Veselova, “Dorogoi Krym: Skolko Stoit Zhit Na Poluostrove?” [Expensive Crimea: How Much Does the Peninsula Life Cost?], Krym.Realii, November 14, 2017.

3

“‘I Ne Zatyagivaite’: Putin Prikazal Platit Krymchanam Rossiiskie Pensii” [And Make It Quick: Putin Ordered Russian Pensions to Crimeans], NewsRu.com, March 19, 2014.

4

Vasily Marinin et al., “Glavnoe o Krymskom Moste” [The Most Relevant Information About the Crimea Bridge], RBC, May 15, 2018.

5

Alexei Levinson, “86% Za ‘KrymNash’” [86% Is for “Crimea Is Ours”], Vedomosti, April 3, 2018.

6

I. A. Kurlyandsky, Stalin, Vlast, Religiya [Stalin, Power, Religion] (Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2011), 42–43.

7

Damien Sharkov, “Stalin More Popular Than Putin, Russians Say,” Newsweek, June 26, 2017.

1

Mikhail Kalnitsky, “Na Pamyatnike Svyatomu Knyazyu Vladimiru Nekotorye Usmatrivayut Prisutstvie Masonskoi Simvoliki” [Some See Masonic Symbolism in St. Vladimir’s Statue in Kiev], Kievskie Vedomosti, January 22, 2013.

2

Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard, trans. Michael Glenny (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971).

3

“Transcript: Putin Says,” Washington Post, March 8, 2014.

4

Kim Kelly, “Decapitating Lenin Statues Is the Hottest New Trend in Ukraine,” Vice, May 25, 2017.

5

Ilya Ponomarev, “Segodnya V Dume Rassmatrivaetsya Zakon Ob Internete. Pravda O Zakone” [Today Duma Considers the Law Concerning the Internet. The Truth About the Law] (blog), LiveJournal, July 11, 2012, https://ilya-ponomarev.livejournal.com/512193.html.

6

Miriam Elder, “Russia Passes Law Banning Gay ‘Propaganda,’” Guardian, June 11, 2013.

7

William Henry Chamberlin, The Ukraine: A Submerged Nation (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944).

1

Yury Brodsky, Solovki: Labirint Preobrazhenii [Solovki: The Labyrinth of Transformations] (Moscow: Novaya Gazeta Publishing, 2017).

2

Luke Harding, “Vladimir Putin: Return of the King,” Guardian, September 26, 2011.

3

“2017 Victory Day Parade in Moscow,” Sputnik International, May 9, 2017.

1

Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov, trans. Stephen Pearl (Charlottetown, CA: Bunim & Bannigan, 2006), p. 128.

2

Ibid., p. 265.

1

Noah Sneider, “Paradise in Perm,” Economist 1843, December–January, 2018.

2

“Breakfast with Frost Interview: Vladimir Putin,” BBC, March 5, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/transcripts/putin5.mar.txt.

3

Cited in Felix Chuev, Molotov: Poluderzhavny Vlastelin [Molotov: A Semisovereign Ruler] (Moscow: Olma Press, 2000), p. 422.

4

Gleb Bryanski, “Russian Patriarch Calls Putin Era ‘Miracle of God,’” Reuters, February 8, 2012.

5

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Kroshka Tsakhes Po Prozvaniyu Tsinnober [Little Zaches, Great Zinnober], trans. from the German by A. Morozova (Moscow: Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1991).

6

Leonid Bershidsky, “Vladimir Putin, the Richest Man on Earth,” Bloomberg, September 17, 2013.

7

Eugenia Albats, “Chisto-Konkretnyi Kandidat” [The Concrete Candidate], New Times, February 27, 2012; Tatyana Melikyan, “Glavsredstva: Pochemu Yezhemesyachnyi Oklad Tak Malo Volnoval Prezidentov I Gensekov” [Chief Funding: Why Monthly Salary Was Never of Interest to the Presidents and General Secretaries], Lenta.ru, November 15, 2016.

8

Andrei Pertsev, “Borba Za Millionniki: Pochemu Kreml Nachal Nastuplenie Na Ekaterinburg I Novosibirsk” [A Fight for the Million-Population Cities: Why the Kremlin Began Its Offensive on Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk], Moscow Carnegie Center, June 4, 2018.

9

Ivan Golunov, “270 Millionov Za Gektar: Kak Izmenitsya Moskva V 2017?” [270 Million for a Hectare: How Moscow Will Change in Summer 2017 and Who Will Get Rich?], Meduza, May 24, 2017.

1

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from a Dead House, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015).

1

Russia has the largest epidemic in Europe and one of the fastest-growing in the world. At least 14,631 Russians died from AIDS-related symptoms in the first half of 2017—an increase of more than 13 percent from the previous year. See Chris Beyrer, Andrea L. Wirtz, George O’Hara, Nolwenn Léon, and Michel Kazatchkine, “The Expanding Epidemic of HIV-1 in the Russian Federation,” PLOS Medicine 14, no. 11 (2017): e1002462.

2

Vera Fateyeva, “Andrei Travnikov Prokommentiroval Rezultaty Vizita Prezidenta V Novosibirsk” [Andrei Travnikov Commented on the Results of the President’s Visit to Novosibirsk], Siberia Online, February 9, 2018.

1

Simon Karlinsky, ed., Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary, trans. Michael Henry Heim (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997), pp. 167–168.

2

“The Far East Has Restored Its Electricity,” TASS, August 1, 2017.

3

“Military Power of Russia and China,” ArmedForces.eu, http://armedforces.eu/compare/country_Russia_vs_China.

4

Karlinsky, Anton Chekhov’s Life, pp. 167–168.

5

Micol Flammini, “Quel ponte sullo stretto tra la Crimea e la Russia che fa tremare Kiev: Oggi viene inaugurato il Krymski most, il ponte sullo stretto di Kerch che collegherà la Crimea alla regione di Krasnodar” [The bridge over the Strait between Crimea and Russia that makes Kiev shudder: Today is inaugurated the Crimean Bridge over the Kerch Strait, which connects Crimea to the Krasnodar region, is inaugurated today], Il Folio, May 15, 2018.

6

See Kesserwan Arteau, “Interview with Daryana Maximova: Native Yakutian and Researcher,” World Policy Journal (blog), January 25, 2017; “Yakutskaya Tragediya” [The Yakut Tragedy], Yakutsk History, https://www.yakutskhistory.net.

7

“Alkogolizm V Yakutii V Tri Raza Vyshe Chem Po Strane” [Alcoholism in Yakutia Is Three Times Higher Than in the Rest of the Country], Sakha News, August 19, 2013.

8

“Yakutskyi Gubernator Ne Udivilsya Publikatsiyam O Svoei Otstavke” [The Yakutia Governor Was Not Surprised by Reports of His Ousting], RBC, May 24, 2018.

1

Vladimir Vysotsky, Vse Stikhotvoreniya [All Poems], trans. from the Russian by Nina Khrushcheva. (Moscow: Literatura, 2000).

2

Sergei Bondarenko, “Stydnye Voprosy O 1937 Gode” [Embarrassing Questions About 1937], Meduza, July 30, 2017.

3

“Spisok I Karta Lagerei Gulag” [A List and a Map of the Gulag Camps], Magadan Jewish Community Site, http://magadanjew.berlev.info/history/gulag/map-legend.htm.

4

“Samyi Nizkii Reiting Vladimira Putina Na Dalnem Vostoke—V Magadane” [Putin’s Lowest Rating in the Far East Is in Magadan], Vesma, January 10, 2018.

5

Dmitry Olshansky, “Navalny Menyaet Svoi Vzglyady V Ugodu Okruzheniyu” [Navalny Changes His Views Depending on His Surroundings], Vzglyad, December 13, 2016.

6

“Zhitel Magadana Obvinen V Rasprostranenii Porochashchikh Svedenii” [Magadan’s Man Is Charged with Defamation], Lenta.ru, July 21, 2016.

1

Margarita Devyatkina, Polina Khimshiashvili, “SMI Soobshchili O Rekordnom Chisle Prosb Rossiyan Ob Ubezhishche V SSHA” [Mass Media Has Reported the Record Asylum Applications to the USA], RBC, May 3, 2018.

2

“Vladimir Putin’s Inauguration,” RT (formerly Russia Today), May 8, 2018.

3

Ibid.

4

Ibid.