44. See the blog by Vadim Birstein, Russian Retropective, “Kara-Murza’s Brave Fight,” http://www.vbirstein.com/karamurza/. Also see Masha Gessen, “’Total Catastrophie of the Body: A Russian Story,” NYR Daily, February 21, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/21/total-catastrophe-of-the-body-kara-murza-poisoning/.
45. Ibid.
46. http://video.foxnews.com/v/5311416183001/?#sp=show-clips.
47. https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/floor-statements?ID=D0AAD5B4-2827-484A-B0CD-088C1536DCAD.
48. http://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-friend-poisoned-russian-activists-wife-tells-trump/story?id=45310449.
13. Kadyrov, Putin, and Power in the Kremlin
1. Fitzpatrick, “Putin’s Usual Suspects.”
2. See Amy Knight, “The Kremlin’s Chechen Dragon,” NYR Daily, May 27, 2010, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2010/05/27/kremlins-chechen-dragon/.
3. Nemtsov, Ispoved’, 129–130.
4. Ilya Yashin, “A Threat To National Security: An Independent Expert Report,” Moscow, Februrary 2016, http://www.4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/A-Threat-to-National-Security.pdf.
5. As quoted in Yashin, “A Threat to National Security.”
6. North Caucasus Weekly, no. 45, vol. 7, November 2006., https://jamestown.org/program/movladi-baisarov-killed-in-moscow-2/.
7. Knight, “The Kremlin’s Chechen Dragon.”
8. Joshua Yaffa, “Putin’s Dragon,” The New Yorker, February 8 and 15, 2016. That Aliyev became a shameless apologist for the Kadyrov regime, after a career as an independent journalist, is clear from an interview he gave to Prague Watchdog on May 8, 2008. When asked about the testimonies of victims of Kadyrov on widespread torture and summary executions that were collected by human-rights activists, he responded: “The people who said there was torture and killing did not present me with any evidence,” http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000004-000001-000226&lang=1.
9. “The Family: A Film about Ramzan Kadyrov, Whom Putin Calls a Son,” Open Russia, May 25, 2015, http://www.khodorkovsky.com/the-family-a-film-about-ramzan-kadyrov/.
10. “Counter-terrorism in the North Caucasus: A Human Rights Perspective. 2014–first half of 2016.” Report by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, Moscow, 2016. http://memohrc.org/sites/default/files/doklad_severnyy_kavkaz_-_angl.pdf, 76.
11. Ibid., 21–24.
12. “Like Walking A Minefield: Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia’s Chechen Republic,” Human Rights Watch, August 30, 2016, https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/08/30/walking-minefield/vicious-crackdown-critics-russias-chechen-republic.
13. Elena Milashina, “Ubiistvo chesti” Novaia gazeta, April 3, 2017, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/01/71983-ubiystvo-chesti; Andrew Kramer, “‘They Starve You. They Shock You.’ Inside the Anti-Gay Program in Chechnya,” The New York Times, April 21, 2017.
14. Elena Milashine, V Chechne idut profilakticheskie raboty,” Novaia gazeta, April 24, 2017, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/24/72263-v-chechne-idut-profilakticheskie-raboty. Also see Amy Knight, “Putin’s Monster,” NYR Daily, May 19, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/19/putins-monster-ramzan-kadyrov/.
15. “The Family.”
16. Brian Whitmore, “Ramzan Kadyrov: The Kremlin’s Id,” RadioLiberty/RadioFreeEurope, January 19, 2016. http://www.rferl.org/content/the-kremlins-id/27497053.html.
17. Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 20.
18. “The Family.”
19. Ibid.
20. Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 24.
21. Ibid., 25.
22. Paul Bond, “Chechen Leader Asks Hilary Swank for Proof of Charitable Donation,” the Hollywood Reporter, February 16, 2012, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hilary-swank-ramzan-kadyrov-chechen-prime-minister-292049.
23. http://memohrc.org/sites/default/files/doklad_severnyy_kavkaz_-_angl.pdf, 34–35.
24. Tanya Lokshina, “Public Humiliation: Chechen Leader’s Simple Strategy to Control Social Media,” The Guardian, October 10, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/10/public-humiliation-chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-strategy-control-social-media.
25. Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 12.
26. Thomas Grove, “The Strongman of Instagram,” the Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-strongman-of-instagram-1472221224; “Like Walking a Minefield.”
27. Neil MacFarquhar, “A Warlord’s Cuddly Makeover, With a Nod to Donald Trump,” The New York Times, November 22, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-donald-trump.html.
28. https://www.instagram.com/p/BApvJo8tBVe/.
29. BBC News, February 1, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35459613.
30. The Moscow Times, February 1, 2016.
31. Ramzan Kadyrov, “Shakaly budut nakazany po zakonu Rossiiskoi Federatsii,” Izvestiia, January 18, 2016, http://izvestia.ru/news/601935.
32. Anna Nemtsova, “Putin’s Out-of-Control Creature in Chechnya,” Politico, February 2, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/how-putin-created-a-monster-in-chechnya-213583.
33. Whitmore, “Ramzan Kadyrov.”
34. Komsomol’skaia pravda, May 6, 2013, http://www.kp.ru/online/news/1432736/.
35. Instagram.com, May 17, 2015, https://www.instagram.com/p/2xw_OjCRsw/.
36. https://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/13/kadyrov_dadaev/.
37. Elena Milashina, “Prokliatie Ichkerii. Doklad Novoi Gazety,” Novaia gazeta, October 3, 2016, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2016/10/03/70025-proklyatie-ichkerii-doklad-novoy-gazety.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, “What Has Kadyrov Been Up To?” the Interpreter, August 26, 2016, http://www.interpretermag.com/what-has-kadyrov-been-up-to-quietly-cultivating-regional-and-kremlin-officials-now-a-meeting-with-putin/#14930.
41. Ibid.
42. MacFarquhar, “A Warlord’s Cuddly Makeover.”
43. Ekaterina Sokrianskaia, “Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Program,” The New York Times, May 3, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/opinion/chechnyas-anti-gay-pogrom.html?_r=0.
44. Neil MacFarquhar, “Putin Dismisses Sergei Ivanov, a Longtime Ally, as Chief of Staff, New York Times, August 12, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/europe/sergei-ivanov-putin-russia.html?_r=0.
45. Andrei Sukhotin, “Istochnik: Uliukaev Ne Bral Deneg V Ruki,” Novaia gazeta, November 15, 2016, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/2016/11/15/126584-istochnik-ulyukaev-ne-bral-deneg-v-ruki; http://carnegie.ru/commentary/?fa=66244.
46. http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/1211633/sechin-took-part-in-ulyukayev-sting.
47. MacFarquhar, “Putin Dismisses Sergei Ivanov.”
48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwlk7_GF9g&t=441s.
49. Shaun Walker, “Alexei Navalny on Putin’s Russia: ‘All autocractic regimes come to an end,’” The Guardian, April 29, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/alexei-navalny-on-putins-russia-all-autocratic-regimes-come-to-an-end.
Afterword
1. Michael Gordon, “Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump,” The New York Times, February 14, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?_r=0.
2. Anna Nemtsova, “Is Putin as Popular as Trump Says?” the Daily Beast, September 9, 2016, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/09/is-putin-as-popular-as-trump-says.
3. Stratfor Market Watch, January 31, 2017, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-is-a-mess-the-poverty-rate-is-soaring-and-only-10-of-85-regions-are-financially-stab
le-2017-01-31.
4. See Amy Knight, “Why is Putin So Popular?” Prospect, December 2014, http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/why-is-putin-so-popular.
5. Transcript of interview with Trump, The New York Times, April 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-new-york-times-transcript.html
6. Gardiner Harris, “Tillerson Warns Russia on Syria, Saying Assad Era is ‘Coming to an End,’” The New York Times, April 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/world/europe/russia-syria-rex-tillerson.html
7. Neil MacFarquhar and Alison Smale, “Angela Merkel Presses Vladimir Putin on Treatment of Gays and Jehovah’s Witnesses,” The New York Times, May 2, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/europe/merkel-putin-russia.html?_r=0.
8. Alison Smale and Steven Erlanger, “Merkel, After Discordant G-7 Meeting, Is Looking Past Trump,” The New York Times, May 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/europe/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html.
9. “Illusions vs Reality: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 9, 2017, http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/09/illusions-vs-reality-twenty-five-years-of-u.s.-policy-toward-russia-ukraine-and-eurasia-pub-67859.
10. Sheera Frenkel, “The New Handbook for Cyberwarfare is Being Written By Russia,” BuzzFeed, March 19, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-new-handbook-for-cyberwar-is-being-written-by-russia?utm_term=.vuBNLxo4w#.vfLgLKeDz.
11. Ford, Political Murder, 388.
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Abdurakhmanov, Viskan
Abramovich, Roman
Adamov, Evgenii
Aeroflot case
Agarev, Evgenii
Akishin, Vitalii
Albats, Yevgenia
Alexeyeva, Lyudmila
Allakhverdov, Mikhail (“Misha”)
Amis, Martin
Arifdzhanov, Rustam
al-Assad, Bashir
Attew, Dean
Aulov, Nikolai
Baburova, Anastasia
Baisarov, Movladi
Bakhaev, Khamzat
Barnes, Robert
Basaev, Shamil
Bashaev, Alkhazur
Bastrykin, Aleksandr
Beketov, Mikhail
Berezovsky, Boris
Abramovich relationship with
Chechnya rebels ties to
civil liberty initiatives of
corruption and murder unveiled by
coup plan of
as criminal suspect
death of
early life and career of
financial troubles of
Litvinenko, A., relationship with
Lugovoy relationship with
Putin relationship with
Beria, Lavrenty
blackmail
Bolsheviks
bombings. See also Boston Marathon bombings
bombings, apartment (1999)
FSB ties to
investigation/blame for
Kremlin and public response to
prior knowledge of
Borisov, Mikhail
Bortnikov, Aleksandr
Boston Marathon bombings. See also Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar; Tsarnaev, Tamerlan
Brezhnev
Britain
Budanov, Iurii
Bush, George W.
Carrère d’Encausse, Hélène
Caryl, Christian
Chaika, Yuri
Chechnya. See also Kadyrov, Ramzan
Berezovsky ties to rebels in
funding of
human-rights abuses in
media controlled in
murder/terrorism blamed on
support and coverage of
Cherkesov, Viktor
Chubais, Anatolii
CIA
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Comey, James
Communist Party
corruption and scandal
exposure of
FSB ties to
of Kremlin/Putin
counterterrorism
Crimea
cyberwarfare
Dadaev, Zaur
Dagestan
Dekkushev, Adam
Dobrokhotov, Roman
Dobrovskii, Sergei
Dolakov, Magomed
Dorenko, Sergei
Dubov, Iulii
Dubovik, Igor
Dubrovka Theater hostage crisis (2002)
Dukuzov, Kazbek
Dunlop, John
Duritskaya, Anna
Dyachenko, Tatiana
Edelev, Arkady
elections
elite
Eskerkhanov, Tamerlan
Estemirova, Natalia
exile community
FBI
Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN)
Federal Protection Service (FSO)
Federal Security Service (FSB)
corruption and scandal ties to
Dubrovka hostage crisis role of
establishment and authority of
Litvinenko, A., and
murders connected to
Nemtsov murder and
1999 bombings role of
poison access of
on Starovoitova, G., murder
on Tsarnaev, T.
Fedosov, Oleg
Felshtinsky, Yuri
Filippov, Dmitrii
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Fradkov, Mikhail
Frenkel, Aleksei
FSB. See Federal Security Service
Gaidar, Egor
Gaitukaev, Loma-Ali
Galeotti, Mark
Gannushkina, Svetlana
Gerasimov, Dmitrii
Geremeev, Ruslan
Glushchenko, Mikhail
Glushkov, Nikolai
Goldberg, Paul
Goldfarb, Alex
Golovlev, Vladimir
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gorky, Maxim
Grachev, Pavel
Grigor’ev, Aleksandr
Gubashev, Shadid and Anzor
Gusinsky, Vladimir
Harding, Luke
homosexuality
human-rights abuses. See also Chechnya
human-rights work
Iakovlev, Vladimir
Iamadaev brothers
Ilyukhin, Viktor
investigation/trial. See specific cases and individuals
Investigative Committee (SK)
ISIS
Israilov, Imar
Iushenkov, Sergei
Ivanov, Sergei
Ivanov, Viktor
jihadists
journalists
Kadyrov, Akhmat
Kadyrov, Ramzan
murders tied to
Putin relationship with
Kalugin, Oleg
Kamenev, Lev
Kara-Murza, Vladimir
Kartashov, Magomed
Kasparov, Garry
Kasyanov, Mikhail
KGB
Khadzhikurbanov, Sergei
Khasis, Evgeniia
Khattab
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
Khokhlov, Nikolai
Khokholkov, Igor
Kholodov, Dmitry
Khrushchev
Kirienko, Sergei
Kirov, Sergei
Klebnikov, Paul
Kodanev, Mikhail
Kolchin, Iurii
Kolokoltsev, Vladimir
Korobov, Igor
Korzhakov, Aleksandr
Kovalev, Sergei
Kovalev
Commission
Kovtun, Dmitrii
Kozlov, Andrei
Kremlin. See specific organizations and individuals
Krymshamkhalov, Iusuf
Kryshtanovskaia, Olga
Kulakov, Fyodor
Kumarin, Vladimir
Kungaeva, Elza
Kursk affair
Lapin, Sergei
Latynina, Iuliia
Leliavin, Viacheslav
Lenin
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Liberal Russia party
Linkov, Ruslan
Listev, Vladislav
Litvinenko, Alexander
Berezovsky relationship with
early life and FSB career of
exile of
Lugovoy relationship with
murder and corruption exposed by
murder of
on Putin
Litvinenko, Marina
Litvinenko, Valter
Lokshina, Tanya
Lugovoy, Andrei
Magnitsky, Sergei
Magnitsky Law
Main Intelligence Administration (GRU)
Makhmudov brothers
Makhutdinov, Ruslan
Manevich, Mikhail
Markelov, Stanislav
Markov, Georgii
Martynyuk, Leonid
Masherov, Pyotr
Mazurov, Kirill
McCain, John
media. See also journalists
Medvedev, Dmitri
Melikian, Gennadii
Memorial
Mercader, Ramon
Merkel, Angel
MI6
Mikhailov, Alexander
Mikhoels, Solomon
Milashina, Elena
Milov, Vladimir
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
Mitrokhin, Sergei