The Putin Interviews

INDEX

*Note: items in bold are topics discussed at length

Abkhazia, 52, 185

Afghanistan, 3, 32, 33, 35-38, 143, 174, 175, 179

Al Qaeda, 33, 34, 36

al-Assad, Bashar, 2, 132, 140, 146, 160, 161, 234, 239

al-Nusra front, 140

Aleppo, 233, 234

Anti-Ballistic Missile System (ABM), 41-44, 51, 72, 77, 80, 98, 115, 117, 118, 177, 179, 187, 194, 195, 232,

Assange, Julian, 214

Azerbaijan, 179

Baker, James, 40

Barr, Aaron, 114

Berezovsky, Boris, 16, 17, 19, 200

Berlin Wall, 31

Biden, Joseph, 223

Big Brother Law, 226

Bin Laden, Osama, 33, 36-37, 93, 94

Bolshevik Revolution, 7, 95, 118, 148

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 25-26

Buk (air defense system of the Ukrainian armed forces), 70

Botnet attack, 222

Brezhnev, era of, 246

Bush, George W., 52, 115, 180

Caliphate, 131, 152

Casey, Bill, 33

Castro, Fidel, 21, 22, 199, 203

Caucasus, 33, 52, 111, 173, 179, 234, 245

Central Bank of Russia, 110, 180

Chavez, Cesar, 199, 205

Chechen wars, 15, 17, 19, 37,

Chechnya, 33, 37, 109, 172, 173, 174

Cheney, Richard, 39, 148

China, 89, 90, 91, 92, 144, 206, 229

Churchill, Winston, 25, 46

Clinton, Hillary, 82, 114

Clinton, William, 39, 40, 41, 42, 156, 209

Cold War, 1, 2, 25, 33, 40, 46, 47, 72, 78, 81, 83, 156, 183, 221

Communism, 2, 47

Communist Party, 95, 223

Crimea, 65, 69, 76, 77, 191, 195, 196, 197, 240

Cromwell, Oliver, 25

Cuba Missile Crisis, 23, 81, 239

Cypress, 202

Dacha, 7, 87

Dagestan, 38, 112, 172

Damascus, 235, 238

de Gaulle, Charles, 120

Deep State, 210

Doctors Without Borders

Donbass, 66-67, 70, 71, 81, 82, 192, 197

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 210

East German Stasi

Eastern bloc, 156

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 131

Electoral College, 48, 122, 210, 211, 215, 219, 225, 237

Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 134, 135, 138, 235, 236

European Union (EU), 63, 64, 92, 118, 192

Federal Security Bureau, 13

Federal Security Service, 13

Fracking, 150-151

Free Trade Area of the CIS, 63

French socialist Utopian, 112

French War, 8

FSB, 13, 184

Fuchs, Klaus, 45

G20, 134, 136, 217, 237

Gaddafi, Muammar, 32

Gaidar, Yegor, 29

Georgia, 52, 156, 184, 185, 188

Georgian situation, 51

Georgian war, 174

Gergiev, Valery

Gershman, Paul, 71

Glazyev, Sergey, 148

Golden Fleece, 178

Google, 228

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 30, 31, 40, 55, 163, 164, 188, 244

Guantanamo Bay, 123

Gülen, 236

Hannibal, Barca, 213

Hersh, Sy, 93

Hiroshima, Japan, 82, 224

Hitler, Adolf, 26, 82, 114

Hussein, Saddam, 31, 46, 150

Iceberg Theory, 22

Imperialism, 48

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICMBs), 78, 117

International Committee of Armaments Control, 117

International Court of Justice, 69, 196

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 110, 111, 112

Iraq War, 30-32, 35, 38, 39, 45, 46, 51, 69, 148, 149

ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, 31, 36, 46, 132, 135, 136, 140, 141-143

Islamic fundamentalism, 33, 34

Islamic terrorism, 36, 46

Israel, 67, 133, 135, 143, 149, 152, 159, 218

Judo, philosophy of, 7, 23, 24, 27, 85, 130, 131, 166-167

Kadyrov, Ramzan, 172, 173,

Kayagin, Alexander, 50

Kennedy, John F. 23, 80, 81, 82,

assassination papers, 183

Kerry, John, 75, 79, 136, 145, 161, 219

KGB, 1, 8, 9, 11, 18, 54, 55, 56, 169, 183

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 19

Khrushchev, Nikita, 14, 23, 80, 81

Kiev, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74, 82, 158, 160, 189, 191, 197

Kirill (Patriarch of Moscow), or Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, 87

Kosovo

crisis, 69

independence of, 69, 196

the bombing of Belgrade, 178

Krasnodar, 77

Kremlin, 88, 163, 183, 187, 213, 225

Krylov, Ivan, 159

Kuan Yew, Lee, 206

Kubrick, Stanley, 81, 195

Kuchma, Leonid, 72, 189

Kunduz, Afghanistan, 136

Kurds (Kurdish peoples), 134

Kuwait, Invasion of, 30-31

Kyoto Protocol, 100

Lagarde, Christine (Madame), 110

Lavrov, Sergey, 75

LeMay, Curtis, 82

Leningrad, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 87

Leontief, Wassily, 27

LGBT Community, 97

Libya, 37, 131, 160, 234

Maidan massacre, 73, 74

Mao Tse Tung, 203

Marcus Porcius Cato (the Elder), 113

McCain, John, 71, 212

McNamara, Robert, 141

Mecca, 160

Medea, 160

Medvedev, Dmitry, 21, 184, 186, 203

Military Industrial Security Complex, 118, 210

Minsk Agreements, 66, 67, 74, 158, 197

Morgan, J.P., 199

Nagasaki, Japan, 82, 224

National Endowment for Democracy, 71

National Security Agency (NSA), 55, 171, 212, 215, 220, 227

National Security Council (NSC), 103, 218

Neocons, 56, 146, 183

Nevsky Pyatchok, 6

Nichaiev, Andrei, 29

Nikolaevich, Mikheil 188

Non-governmental organization (NGO), 71, 120, 219

North Sea, 98, 99

Novorossiysk, 77, 193

Nuland, Victoria, 71, 240

Obama, Barack, 50-54, 74, 75, 117, 123, 138, 146, 161, 188-189, 209, 211, 217, 219, 223, 225, 237, 238, 246

nuclear deal in Iran, 114

Oblest, Moscow, 7

October Socialist Revolution, 52

Odessa, 73, 160

Odysseus, 178

Oligarchs, 3, 16, 17, 19, 24, 73, 162, 199-201

Onassis, Aristotle, 199

Orange Revolution, 174

Organization of Islamic Conference, 218

Ossetia, 52, 184, 185, 187, 188

Pakistan, 93-94

Palestine, 67

Palmyra, 158, 161

Panama Papers, 202

Perestroika, 9

Permanent Court of Arbitration, 229

Persian Gulf, 145

Poland, 44, 74, 115, 194, 223

Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 223

Poroshenko, Petro, 64, 66, 67, 159

Privatization, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 63

Putin, Vladimir

on war, 78

on religion, 86

on family, 88

on China, 89

on Bin Laden, 93

on power, 94

on Democracy and Freedom, 95

on the Arctic, 98

on Muslims, 99

on Kyoto Protocol, 100

on being Anti-American, 100

on work management and national security, 103

on economy, 107

on economics, 126

on Syria, 130

on Russian relations with Turkey, 133

on Saudi Arabia, 142

on Security of Russia, 154

on Ukraine, 158

on Russian surveillance, 169

on Chechnya, 172

on Putin’s first Presidency, 178

on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea, 184

on the 2016 Election, 209

on cyber warfare, 219

on international relations, 229

on Syria and defense, 233

on sovereignty, 244

Reagan, Ronald, 30, 33, 79, 82, 105, 106, 107

Right Sector, 74

Ritneva River, 6

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 151

Rockefeller, John D., 199

Romania, 44, 115, 194, 232

Rose, Charlie, 128, 190

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 45

Rousseff, Dilma, 127

Russian Federation, 12, 52, 76, 97, 109, 112, 172, 180, 185, 204, 240-241

Russian War, 8

Saakashvili, Mikheil, 51, 52, 73, 157, 184, 185, 187, 188

Sanders, Bernie, 123

Sebastopol, 193

Second Chechen War, 15, 17, 37

Second Punic War, 213

Security Council of Russia, 103

September 11th attacks 32

Sharon, Ariel, 152

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 188

Siege of Leningrad, 5, 6

Silk Road, 92, 133

Simonyan, Margarita, 91

Snowden, Edward, 50-54, 56-59, 61, 62, 91, 188, 220-222, 227

Sobchak, Anatoly, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17

Sochi, 72, 77, 133, 161, 162, 163, 178, 235

Somalia, 234

Soros, George, 71

South Ossetia, 52

Sovereignty, 45, 46, 60, 83, 119, 120, 121, 161, 221, 237, 244-247

Soviet Union, 1-3, 7, 9, 12-13, 17, 25-26, 30, 33-34, 40-41, 44-47, 81, 94, 115-116, 118, 120, 142, 156, 170, 172, 175, 183-184, 192-193, 199, 203, 223

Special Services, 56, 103, 104, 169, 170, 171, 179, 227, 228

St. Andrew Hall, 127

St. Petersburg, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, 18, 28, 86, 199, 237

Stalin, Joseph, 7, 14, 25, 26, 46, 47, 96, 119, 170, 172, 203

Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative), 79

Stone, Sharon, 179, 182

Stuxnet, 220, 222, 224

Sunni tribes, 140, 218, 233

Supreme Court of the United States, 96

Suvorov, Alexander Vasilyevich, 231

Syria, 2, 32, 36, 46, 50, 114, 130-132, 134-136, 138-142, 145, 146, 158, 160, 161, 194, 216-218, 228, 233, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239

Tajikistan, 33

Tatars, 69, 196

Tbilisi, 16, 17

The Arctic, 98

The Pentagon, 114, 115, 117, 154, 220, 238

Tiger economy, 206

Timoshenko, Stephen, 189

Tolstoy, Leo, 113

TOPOL (ballistic missile), 78

Trans-Siberian Railroad, 92

Truman, Harry S., 46, 47, 198

Trump, Donald J., 3, 123, 209, 210-218, 225

Tsarism, 199

Tsipras, Alexis, 91

Turkey, 81, 133-138, 141, 147, 233-237

Ukraine, 2, 56, 60, 62-68, 71-74, 76, 81, 82, 90, 112, 115, 120-121, 158-159, 171-172, 181, 190-196, 217, 219, 243

UN Security Council, 31

United Nations Charter, 69, 139, 150

USS Donald Cook, 239-241

Verkhovna Rada, 67

Vietnam War, 30

Wall Street, 111, 118, 148, 179, 180, 182-183

Wallace, Mike, 23

Warsaw Treaty, 156

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), 39, 113, 122

Western bloc, 120, 121, 156

WikiLeaks, 214

Wilson, Woodrow, 46

World Trade Organization (WTO), 64

World War II (Second World War), 6-8, 25, 47, 81, 118-120, 172, 213

Yanukovych, Viktor, 63, 65, 72, 73, 74, 189, 190, 191, 239, 240

Yatsenyuk, Arseniy, 159, 192

Yeltsin, Boris, 1, 12-16, 28-29, 33, 56, 164

Yugoslavia, 179

Yushchenko, Viktor, 189, 190