The Russia Conundrum

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Akhmatova, Anna

Albright, Madeleine

Aleksanyan, Vasily

Alekseeva, Lyudmila

Alexander I, Tsar

Alexander III, Tsar

Alexander Nevsky, Prince

Andropov, Yuri

Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)

anti-Westernism

Apatit

Arab Spring

Asch, Solomon

Assad, Bashar al-

assassinations

Atlantic Council

August coup (1991)

authoritarianism

autocracy

Baburova, Anastasia

Badanin, Roman

Baikal Finance Group

Bakatin, Vadim

Baltic states

banks, private

Bashneft

Bastrykin, Alexander

BBC

Begun, Josef

Bellingcat

Berezovsky, Boris

Beslan school massacre (2004)

Beyrle, John

Biden, Joe

Bogacheva, Alexandra

Bogdanov, Vladimir

Bolotnaya (Snow), Revolution

Bolsheviks

Borodin, Vitaly

Bortnikov, Alexander

Boshirov, Ruslan

brain drain see emigration

Brezhnev, Leonid

bribery

Browder, William (Bill)

Buffet, Warren

Bukato, Viktor

Burchik, Mikhail

Bush, George

business involvement in politics

BusinessWeek

Bystrov, Mikhail

Carey Reilly, Sarah

Cartledge, Bryan

Catherine the Great

censorship see media control

Central African Republic (CAR)

Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Chaadayev, Pyotr

Chatham House

Chechnya

Cheka

Chemezov, Sergei

chemical weapons

Cherkesov, Viktor

Chernenko, Konstantin

ChevronTexaco

Chicago Boys

China

oil pipeline

relations with Russia

Chubais, Anatoly

CIA

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

Cold War, new (2020)

collectivism

colour revolutions

Committee to Protect Journalists

computer and IT industry

Concord Management and Consulting Group

conformity

conscripts

Conway, Kellyanne

corporate raiding see reiderstvo

corruption

COVID

Crimea

annexation (2014)

given to Ukraine (1954)

Cromwell, Oliver

cyberattacks

Daley, Tom

deep state

democracy

democracy, managed

Deripaska, Oleg

dioxin

Donbas

Dossier Center

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Drezner, Daniel

Dyumin, Alexei

Dzerzhinsky, Felix (statue of)

Dzhemal, Orkhan

economic blackmail see greenmailing

economy

centralised command economy

‘economic shock therapy’

financial crisis (1998)

free enterprise

GDP

low-tax zones

private enterprise

privatisation

recession (2014)

renationalisation

restructuring (1992)

state-owned firms, increase in

as a tool of politics

voucher privatisation

see also money laundering; offshoring wealth; sanctions

elections

emigration (brain drain)

Ernst, Konstantin

Estemirova, Natalya

European Choice

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

Eurovision

ExxonMobil

Facebook

fake news

FBI

FBK see Anti-Corruption Foundation

Federation of Internet Education

Feoktistov, Oleg

Flinge, Irina

Flynn, Mike

food embargo

Forbes

foreign agent law

foreign currency trading

Fox

Fradkov, Mikhail

Freedom of Information Society

FSB

assassinations and attacks

corruption

organised crime links

oversight, lack of

Putin and

Sixth Service

successor to KGB

Yukos raid

see also SEB

Future of Russia Foundation

Gaidar, Yegor

Galyamina, Yulia

gazeta.ru

Gazprom

Gazprombank

Gazprom Bureniye

Gates, Bill

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich

Georgian war (2008)

Gerashchenko, Viktor

Germany, unwilling to alienate Russia

glasnost

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gordievsky, Oleg

Gore, Al

greenmailing

Greenpeace

Grossman, Vasily

GRU

Gudkov, Dmitry

gulag system (labour camps)

Gunvor

Gusinsky, Vladimir

Hartman, Arthur

Have I Got News For You

Help and Advise

Helsinki Commission

Hermitage Capital

historical determinism

history, revision of

homophobia

Illarionov, Andrei

import substitution

Insider

Instagram

Institute of Modern Russia

International Chemical Weapons Convention

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

internet

access and training

‘internet population’

sovereign internet project

Internet Research Agency (IRA), The

Investment Promotion Fund

iStories

Iraq War

Ivanov, Sergei

Ivanov, Viktor

Izmailovo crime syndicate

journalists

Kadyrov, Ramzan

Kalinin, Mikhail

Kalyagin, Boris

Kara-Murza, Vladimir

Kasparov, Garry

Kasyanov, Mikhail

Kaverzina, Irina

Kerimov, Suleiman

KGB

KGB Inc. see Siloviki

Khodorkovsky, Boris

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

arrest, trial and imprisonment

bounty offered

confrontations with Putin

currency dealing

Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy

early life

emotions

hunger strikes

labour camp

marriage

Menatep businesses

pro-Americanism

release from prison

Yukos, purchasing of

Yukos, resignation from

Khodorkovsky, Pavel

Khodorkovskaya, Inna

Khodorkovskaya, Marina

Khodorkovsky Foundation

Khrushchev, Nikita

KIB NTP Bank see Menatep Bank

Kirill, Patriarch

Kiriyenko, Sergei

Kiselev, Dmitry

Kissinger, Henry

Kleimenov, Kirill

Know How Fund

Kolesnichenko, Tomas

Kolesnikov, Andrei

Kolokoltsev, Vladimir

Kommersant

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Komsomol youth movement

Korallovo

kormlenie (‘feeding’)

Korolev, Sergei

Kosciusko, Jacques-Antoine

Kostin, Andrei

Kovalchuk, Mikhail

Kovalchuk, Yuri

Kovalev, Sergei

Kremlin liberals

Krushinskaya, Mrs

Krutikhin, Mikhail

Krylova, Alexandra

Kryuchkov, Vladimir

Kursk submarine sinking (2000)

Kuznetsova, Maria

labour camps see gulag system

Lebedev, Platon

legal system, corruption of

Lenin, Vladimir

Lennox, Annie

Lermontov, Mikhail

Leskina, Tatyana

Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Sabine

Levada Center

Libya

Litvinenko, Alexander

Lobaye Invest

Lozé, Bernard

Lugovoy, Andrei

Lukashenko, Alexander

Magnitsky, Sergei

Magnitsky Act

managed democracy see democracy, managed

Mao Zedong

MBK Media

media control

Media Most Corporation

Meduza

Medvedev, Dmitry

Memorial

Menatep (Centre for Inter-Industry Scientific and Technical Progress)

Menatep Bank (KIB NTP Bank)

Mendeleev Chemical Technology Institute (Moscow)

Merkel, Angela

Mikhelson, Leonid

Milanovi´c, Branco

Miller, Alexei

Miłosz, Czesław

money laundering

Mongol Yoke

Moscow Echo

Mueller, Robert (Bob), and Mueller Report

Munich Conference on Security Policy (2007)

Muratov, Dmitry

Naryshkin, Sergei

Nashi

nash-ism

NATO

Navalny, Alexei

Nazis

Nemtsov, Boris

neo-Nazis

Nevzlin, Leonid

New Russian Idea, The

news channels

NGOs (foreign), banned (2012) Nixon, Richard

Nord-Ost theatre siege (2002)

Nord Stream

Novaya Gazeta

Novichok

NTV

nuclear weapons

Obama, Barack

offshoring wealth

Ogoniok

oil industry

oil crisis (1998)

privatisation

renationalisation

see also Yukos oil company

OMON riot police

Open Media

Open Russia

Operation Crossfire Hurricane

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

organised crime

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

orphans

ORT (television channel)

Orthodox Church

Orwell, George

OVD-Info

Owen, Lord

Oxford Russia Fund

Panama Papers investigation (2016)

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

patriotism

Patrushev, Nikolai

People’s Verdict

perestroika

Perviy Kanal

Peskov, Dmitry

Petrov, Alexander

Pichugin, Alexei

Pivovarov, Andrei

Politkovskaya, Anna

polonium

Potemkin villages

Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests

Prigozhin, Yevgeny (Putin’s Cook)

Primakov, Yevgeny

Proekt

protests

Pushkin, Alexander

Pussy Riot

Putin, Katerina

Putin, Vladimir

Acting President (1999)

anti-Americanism

anti-corruption meetings (2003)

anti-Westernism

‘barbeque meeting’ (May, 2000)

Black Sea palace

character

corruption

corruption meetings (2003)

empire-building

head of the FSB

immunity from prosecution

KGB career

meeting with top executives (July, 2000)

Munich Conference speech

New Russian Idea, The

as ‘old man in his bunker’

one-man state

‘On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians’

opposition suppressed

patronage

personality

personality cult

personal wealth

playing-off groups against each other

popularity

power, hold on

President (2000)

Russia at the Turn of the Millennium (2000)

St Petersburg city government official

sanctions battle (2021)

seeking office beyond, 2024

Severnaya Neft deal (2003)

support for authoritarian rulers

xenophobia

QAnon

Radchenko, Kirill

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Rainsford, Sarah

Raksha, Alexei

Rastorguyev, Alexander

Ratnikov, Boris

Reagan, Ronald

reiderstvo (corporate raiding)

Research Institute for Fertilisers and Insecto-Fungicides

Roizman, Yevgeny

Roldugin, Sergei

Rosgvardiya

Roskomnadzor

Rosneft

Rosstat

Rotenberg, Arkday

Rotenberg, Boris

Rotenberg, Igor

Rothschild, Jacob

roubles

Rowley, Charlie

Rusal

Russia

as empire

as kleptocracy

as mafia state

as managed democracy

neo-feudal model of

as part of Europe

as sick man of Europe

Russian mafia

Russian Idea, The

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Russians living outside of Russia, needing protection

Russian zone of influence

Ryzhkov, Vladimir

Sachs, Jeffrey

St Petersburg

organised crime

Pushkarsky Park electrical substation banner and murals

Sakharov, Andrei

Salisbury poisonings

Salye, Marina

Samaraneftegaz

sanctions

Sanders, Bernie

Schlumberger

Schools of Public Politics

Schröder, Gerhard

Scott, C. P.

SEB (FSB’s Economic Security Service)

Sechin, Igor

Sedov, Alexei

Seventeen Moments of Spring

Severnaya Neft

Shakespeare, William

Shalamov, Varlam

Shamalov, Kirill

Shamalov, Nikolai

Shamalov, Yury

Shchekochikhin, Yuri

Shcharansky, Anatoly

Shevchenko, Anastasia

Shevtsova, Lilia

Shield and the Sword, The

Sibneft

SIBUR

Silayev, Ivan

Siloviki (‘Strongmen’)

Simonov, Vladimir

Simonyan, Margarita

Skabeyeva, Olga

Skripal, Sergei

Skripal, Yulia

Sky News

Slavophiles

Smirnov, Yevgeny

Snow Revolution see Bolotnaya (Snow), Revolution

Sobchak, Anatoly

Sobyanin, Sergei

Sochi Olympics

social media

SolarWinds hack

Soldatov, Andrei

Soloviev, Vladimir

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Soros, George

Soviet Committee for Science and Technology

Soviet Union

collapse of

nostalgia for

Speransky, Mikhail

Stalin, Joseph

Starbucks

statism

Sturgess, Dawn

Sullivan, Jake

Surkov, Vladislav

SVR

Syrian civil war

Team

TEK Mosenergo

Telegram

Thatcher, Margaret

Third World War

Timchenko, Gennady

Tkachev, Ivan

Tolokonnikova, Nadezhda

Tomskneftegaz

Translator Project

Troitsky, Artyom

Troll Factory see Internet Research Agency (IRA), The

Trump, Donald

Trump, Donald, jr

Tsepov, Roman

Twentieth Trust

Twitter

Ukraine

Maidan Revolution (2014)

as part of Russia

Russian intervention (2014)

Russian invasion (2022)

Russian trolling

see also Crimea

Ulyukaev, Alexey

‘undesirable’ organisations

US,

2016 presidential election

no recognition of Putin as president after, 2024

‘Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy’

Russian fear of

Russian ridicule of

storming of the Capitol (2021)

Syrian conflict

USSR see Soviet Union

Vaino, Anton

Vedomosti

Vekselberg, Viktor

Venezuela

Vershbow, Sandy

Volodin, Vyacheslav

Voloshin, Alexander

VTB Bank

VTimes

VTsIOM

Wagner Private Military Company (Wagner PMC)

Warnig, Matthias

Washington Post

Weimar Republic

Western business practices

Westernisers

Western pop music

Western view of Russia

Yakovenko, Alexander

Yakunin, Vladimir

Yanukovych, Viktor

Yashin, Ilya

Yauza

Yeltsin, Boris

young people

Nashi

Open Russia and

YouTube

Yuganskneftegaz (YNG)

Yugoslav war

Yukos oil company

Yushchenko, Viktor

Zakharova, Maria

Zolotov, Viktor

Zuckerberg, Mark

Zykov, Andrei

Zyuganov, Gennady