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Page 155
claimed no knowledge:
Sergei Parkhomenko, “Besedy na yasnom glazu,”
Itogi
, May 11, 2000.
http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/20/111020.html
. Accessed May 21, 2011.

Page 158
One thing was clear:
Original reporting for Masha Gessen, “Leningradskoye delo,”
Itogi
, July 18, 2000.
http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/29/112897.html
. Accessed May 23, 2011.

Page 159
“There are no charges”:
Author interview with Nina Lepchenko, July 3, 2000.

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stopped being a threat:
Masha Gessen, “Leningradskoye delo,”
Itogi
, July 18, 2000.

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release him pending trial:
“Glava ‘Russkogo video’ Dmitry Rozhdestvensky umer ot serdechnogo pristupa,” unsigned news story on lenta.ru.
http://lenta.ru/russia/2002/06/06/rusvideo/
. Accessed May 23, 2011.

Page 163
debts would be forgiven:
Mikhail Kasyanov,
Bez Putina
(Moscow: Novaya Gazeta, 2009), pp. 70–73.

Page 163
but also by the press minister:
Dmitry Pinsker, “Ulika nomer 6,”
Itogi
, Sept. 26, 2000.
http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/39/114667.html
. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 163
Gusinsky said publicly:
“Gusinsky ne budet ispolnyat’ soglasheniya s Gazpromom, potomu shto oni podpisany pod ugrozoy lisheniya svobody. Ugrozhal yemu lichno Lesin,” unsigned news story on
www.polit.ru
.
http://old.polit.ru/documents/320557.html
. Accessed May 25, 2011.

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Putin refused to interfere:
“Putin schitayet, shto konflikt mezhdu Gazpromom i Media-Mostom—spor khozyaystvuyushchikh subyektov, reshat, kotoryi dolzhen sud,” unsigned news item on
www.polit.ru
.
www.polit.ru
.
http://old.polit.ru/documents/329155.html
. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 164
reprimanding his press minister:
“Kasyanov snova publichno otchital Lesina. Na tom delo i konchilos’,” unsigned news item on
www.polit.ru
.
http://old.polit.ru/documents/334896.html
. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 166
“Death is on board with us”:
Boris Kuznetsov,
“Ona utonula …”: Pravda o “Kurske,” kotoruyu skryl genprokuror Ustinov
(Moscow: De-Fakto, 2005).

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confirm there were no survivors:
“Gibel atomnoy podvodnoy lodki ‘Kursk.’ Khronologiya,” unsigned item on RIA Novosti.
http://ria.ru/society/20050812/41140663.html
. Accessed June 1, 2011.

Page 168
“I was screaming”:
Author interview with Marina Litvinovich, July 1, 2008.

Page 169
“‘Do you believe that the guys’”:
Kolesnikov, p. 35.

Page 170
“‘Cancel the mourning immediately!’”:
Ibid., pp. 38–39.

Page 171
“You saw it on television?”:
Programma Sergeya Dorenko ob APL Kursk
, aired Sept. 2, 2000.
http://sergeydorenko.spb.ru/news-1-24.htm
. Accessed June 1, 2011.

Page 173
“It sank”:
Larry King Live
, “Russian President Vladimir Putin Discusses Domestic and Foreign Affairs,” aired Sept. 8, 2000.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/08/lkl.00.html
. Accessed June 1, 2011.

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Testifying in a London court:
Alexander Voloshin, London Commercial Court testimony, November 14, 2011.

Page 174
“I wrote about an American journalist”:
Author interview with Boris Berezovsky, June 2008.

Page 174
“I’ve always told people”:
Yelena Bonner, press conference, Moscow, Nov. 30, 2000.

Page 175
“What a shitty time”:
Yuri Samodurov, press conference, Moscow, Nov. 30, 2000.

EIGHT. THE DISMANTLING OF DEMOCRACY

Page 177
“In December 2000, I went”:
“A Year of Putin,” a roundtable discussion held in Moscow, Dec. 26, 2000. The speakers were Leonid Ionin, dean of applied political science at the Higher School of Economics; Duma deputy Vyacheslav Igrunov; political adviser Simor Kordonsky; philosopher Alexander Tsipko; and Carnegie Center scholar Andrei Ryabov.

Page 180
“I spent six years”:
Yuli Rybakov, interviewed by Marina Koroleva on Echo Moskvy, Jan. 17, 2001.
http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/13380.phtml
. Accessed June 7, 2011.

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an undercover KGB agent:
Leonid Drachevsky worked in Soviet embassies in Spain and Poland.

Page 181
KGB officers from Leningrad:
Viktor Cherkesov and Georgy Poltavchenko.

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a police general:
Petr Latyshev.

Page 181
army generals:
Viktor Kazantsev and Konstantin Pulikovsky.

Page 182
“I assert that the most”:
Boris Berezovsky, “Lichniye svobody—glavny zakon demokraticheskogo obchshestva. Otkrytoye pismo prezidentu Rossiyskoy federatsii Vladimiru Putinu,”
Kommersant
, May 31, 2000.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/149293/print
. Accessed May 1, 2011.

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group voting became routine:
OSCE Election Observation Mission Report 2004.
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/russia/33101
. Accessed June 8, 2011.

Page 183
Darya Oreshkina:
Full disclosure: A couple of years after defending her dissertation on the topic, Darya became my life partner.

Page 183
more of their power to decide:
Darya Oreshkina,
Kartograficheskiy metod v issledovanii elektoral’nogo povedeniya naseleniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii
, Ph.D. dissertation defended at Moscow State University in 2006.

Page 184
“a powerful inoculation”:
Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.

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depended on their vote:
Golos press conference, Moscow, March 14, 2004.

Page 188
An exhaustive study conducted:
Soyuz Zhurnalistov Rossii, “Predvaritel’niy otchyot o monitoringe osveshcheniya s SMI vyborov Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii 14 marta 2004 g.”
http://www.ruj.ru/news_2004/news_040331_1.html
. Accessed Dec. 3, 2011.

Page 190
“One cannot but weep”:
“Putin obyavil o perestroike gosudarstva posle tragedii v Beslane,” unsigned news item on
newsru.com
, and the full text of Putin’s speech, Sept. 13, 2004.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/13sep2004/putin.html
. Accessed June 9, 2011.

NINE. RULE OF TERROR

Page 199
“Just three weeks ago he was”:
“Terrible Effects of Poison on Russian Spy Shown in First Pictures,” unsigned story,
Daily Mail
, Nov. 21, 2006.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-417248/Terrible-effects-poison-Russian-spy-shown-pictures.html
. Accessed June 22, 2011.

Page 199
A few hours later … he was dead:
Author interview with Marina Litvinenko, London, April 24, 2011.

Page 203
found evidence:
Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky,
FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu
(New York: Liberty Publishing, 2004).

Page 203
other evidence began to emerge:
Alexander Goldfarb with Marina Litvinenko,
Sasha, Volodya, Boris
… 2nd ed. (New York and London: AGC/Grani, 2010), p. 236.

Page 205
“They were very happy”:
L. Burban et al., “Nord-Ost. Neokonchennoye rassledovaniye. Sobytiya, fakty, vyvody,” Moscow, April 26, 2006, Appendix 6.5, “Opisaniye sobytiy poterpevshey Karpovoy T. I.”
http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/nordost/pril6.htm
. Accessed June 23, 2011.

Page 205
“Esteemed President”:
Burban et al.,
Khronologiya terakta
.
http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/nordost/1-2.htm
. Accessed June 23, 2011.

Page 208
“You are welcome and”:
Elaine Sciolino, “Putin Unleashes His Fury Against Chechen Guerrillas,”
New York Times,
Nov. 12, 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/12/international/europe/12RUSS.html
. Accessed June 23, 2011.

Page 208
the video of him lashing out:
See, for example,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-6ejE1KG8A
. Accessed June 23, 2011.

Page 209
Khanpash Terkibaev:
Author interview with Ahmed Zakaev, London, June 6, 2011.

Page 209
gave him all the information:
“Litvinenko: FSB ubila Yushenkova za pravdu o Nord-Oste,” unsigned story on grani.ru, April 25, 2003.
http://grani.ru/Events/Terror/m.30436.html
. Accessed June 24, 2011.

Page 210
Moscow, he said:
Anna Politkovskaya, “Odin iz gruppy terroristov utselel. My yego nashli,”
Novaya Gazeta
, April 28, 2003.
http://politkovskaya.novayagazeta.ru/pub/2003/2003-035.shtml
. Accessed June 20, 2011.

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caused by an unknown toxin:
“K zaklyuchehiyu kommissionnoy sudebno-meditsinskoy expertizy o pravilnosti lecheniya Shchekochikhina Yuriya Petrovicha, 1950 goda rozhdeniya,”
Novaya Gazeta
, July 1, 2004.
http://2004.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2004/46n/n46n-s05.shtml
. Accessed June 20, 2011.

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possible secret-police involvement:
Author interview with Ahmed Zakaev, London, June 6, 2011.

Page 212
Her plan was to act:
Sergei Sokolov and Dmitry Muratov, “Anna Politkovskaya otravlena FSB,”
Novaya Gazeta
, Sept. 4, 2004.
http://tapirr.narod.ru/politkovskaya2005.html
#OTpaBeлeHa. Accessed June 20, 2011.

Page 216
312 people died:
“Pravda Beslana.”
http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/pravda_beslana.pdf
. Accessed June 26, 2011.

Page 216
not even heightened security:
Anna Politkovskaya, “Shto delalo MVD do Beslana, vo vremya i posle,”
Novaya Gazeta
, Aug. 28 2006.
http://politkovskaya.novayagazeta.ru/pub/2006/2006-77.shtml
. Accessed June 26, 2011.

Page 219
“Women should not be”:
Alexei Chadayev’s blog, March 21, 2006.
http://kerogazz-batyr.livejournal.com/365459.html?thread=4023699#t4023699
. Accessed Dec. 3, 2011.

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“We disagreed occasionally”:
Alexander Litvinenko, “Annu Politkovskuyu ubil Putin,”
Chechenpress
, Oct. 8, 2006.
http://alexanderlitvinenko.narod.ru/myweb2/article3.html
. Accessed June 27, 2011.

Page 220
he encountered a picket line:
“V Dresdene Putina nazvali ubiytsey,” unsigned, grani.ru, Oct. 10, 2006.
http://grani.ru/Society/Media/m.112666.html
. Accessed June 27, 2011.

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