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20 
.
The Guardian
, Sept. 22, 2013.

21 
.
Der Spiegel
, Nov. 24, 2014,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706–2.html
. The remark of Putin’s senior adviser was made in a briefing in Moscow in December 2013, conducted on condition of anonymity.

22 
.
New York Times
, Nov. 23, 2013.

23 
.
The Economist
, Dec. 23, 2013.

24 
.
Kommersant
, Feb. 6, 2014.

25 
.
Yezhednevny Zhurnal
, Feb. 10, 2014,
http://ej.ru/?aote&id=24384
.

26 
. Leonid Bershidsky, “Olympics Bring Back the 1980s in Russia,” Bloomberg, Feb. 17, 2014.

CHAPTER 25: OUR RUSSIA

1 
. James Meek, “Romantics and Realists,”
London Review of Books
, Feb. 20, 2014.

2 
.
New York Times
, Jan. 3, 2015.

3 
. Putin disclosed his secret order to evacuate Yanukovych from Crimea, along with other details about the crisis over Ukraine, during an interview for a
television documentary on the state channel Rossiya-1 that was broadcast on March 15, 2015, in time for the first anniversary of the annexation. It was called “Crimea: The Path to the Motherland” and is available online in various places, including at
http://en.krymedia.ru/politics/3373711-Documentary-Crimea-Path-to-Motherland-Call-and-Warning
.

4 
. Putin made the comparison in his first public statements on the events in Ukraine on March 4, 2014.

5 
. Russia’s representative at the United Nations read the letter at a meeting of the Security Council on March 3, 2014.

6 
. Andreas Rinke, “How Putin Lost Berlin,”
IP Journal
, German Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 29, 2014. Also Reuters, on March 20, 2014, reported Putin’s admission to Merkel.

7 
. See the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s “Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2014,” available at
books.sipri.org/files/FS/SIPRIFS1504.pdf
.

8 
.
New York Times
, March 3, 2014.

9 
. The United States Treasury Department announced its second, more substantive round of sanctions on March 20, 2014, four days after the annexation of Crimea,
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl23331.aspx
.

10 
. Author interview with Vladimir Yakunin in March 2014.

11 
. Timchenko gave a lengthy interview to the Tass news agency, which was posted on Aug. 4, 2014, at
tass.ru/en/Russia/743432
.

12 
. The recording by the Ukrainian security service, known as the SBU, was widely cited in the international and Ukrainian media, part of an information war by both sides. Although the rebels denied fixing the results of the referendum, the recording itself of those involved did not appear to be in dispute, simply the meaning of it. A translated transcript appeared at
http://ukrainianpolicy.com/sbu-audio-links-donetsk-republic-to-russian-involvement/
.

13 
. Mark Galeotti discussed the doctrine, little noticed at the time of publication, and noted its relevance in the events in Ukraine in 2014 in an analysis that included this translation at
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/the-gerasimov-doctrine-and-russian-non-linear-war/
.

14 
. In May 2015, prosecutors in the United States and Switzerland announced the arrests of senior officials with FIFA as part of a years-long investigation into bribery in the awarding of World Cup bids. The scandal forced the resignation of FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter. Putin denounced the Americans in particular, saying the investigation was “another blatant attempt by the United States to extend its jurisdiction to other states.”

15 
. Strelkov’s posting on VKontakte was later removed, but versions of it
remained online, including a translation at
http://www.interpretermag.com/was-col-strelkovs-dispatch-about-a-downed-ukrainian-plane-authentic/
.

16 
. The Dutch and Malaysian investigation into the destruction of Flight 17 was expected to be completed by the end of 2015. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the Russian military’s involvement. See
https://www.bellingcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Origin-of-the-Separatists-Buk-A-Bellingcat-Investigation1.pdf
and
http://interpretermag.com/evidence-review-who-shot-down-mh17
.

17 
. The phrase in Russian is simple, though difficult to translate literally, thus there have been different versions. “Yest Putin, Yest Rossiya—nyet Putina, nyet Rossii,”
http://izvestia.ru/news/578379
.

18 
. See the Permanent Arbitration Court’s ruling, July 18, 2014,
Yukos Universal Limited v. The Russian Federation
, p. 330,
http://www.pca-cpa.org
.

19 
.
New York Review of Books
, May 8, 2014.

20 
. Author interview with Garry Kasparov in Macau, June 2014, as part of reporting for a
New York Times Magazine
article on his bid to become president of the international federation of chess, or FIDE, Aug. 6, 2014.

21 
.
New York Times
, Dec. 2, 2014.

22 
.
Vedomosti
, March 1, 2014.

23 
.
Moscow Times
, June 18, 2014.

24 
. Author interview with Aleksei Navalny, Dec. 2014.

25 
. Nemtsov’s report was completed posthumously by colleagues in the opposition. It was released in the spring of 2015 and is available in English at
http://www.4freerussia.org/putin.war/
.

26 
.
Novaya Gazeta
, Aug. 11, 2014,
http://novayagazeta.ru/politics/64784.html
.

27 
.
New York Times
, Jan. 24, 2015.

28 
. Nikolai Gogol,
Dead Souls
, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Vintage, 1996), p. 253.

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