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Kimball, Daryl, 53 Patta, Debora, 4
Klebnikov, Paul, 29–30 Pavlovsky, Gleb, 19–20
Kukly (puppet comedy program), 20 Petrov, Nikolai, 37
Kursk (nuclear-powered submarine) disaster, 18, Pifer, Steven, 43
19, 19–20 Policy, 31
Politkovskaya, Anna, 28–29, 30
Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 8–10, 9 Powell, Colin, 26
Leningrad State University, 11 presidency of Putin
LGBTQ rights, 39–40 aggression against other nations
Litvinenko, Aleksandr, 30–31 Georgia, 35, 41
Lucas, Edward, 34 Syria, 45, 45
Lukashenko, Alexander, 41 Ukraine, 35, 42–44, 49–55, 51
Chechan independence movement and, 6, 10
Markus, Stanislav, 23 closure of nongovernmental organizations, 40
McCain, John, 38 constitutional limits and, 32, 33
McFaul, Michael, 7 economy during, 35
media, Putin’s control of, 18–20 elections during
candidates’ access to, during elections, 25, 26 2004, 25, 26, 26
censorship of 2022 invasion of Ukraine, 54 2012, 34–35
2012 election and, 34 2018, 42
Kukly puppet comedy program, 20 new federal districts and, 22
murder of writers critical of Putin, 28–31, 30 fi rst election to, 17
Putin’s macho image in, 31, 34 goal of, 38–39
Medvedev, Dmitry, 32–33, 33 KGB members in, 25–26
Merkel, Angela, 6, 29 Kursk disaster, 18, 19, 19–20
Mitrokhin, Sergei, 22 murder of writers critical of, 28–31, 30
Moscow, Dubrovka Theater hostage situation, NATO and, 47–48
20–21, 21 new federal districts created by, 21–22
nuclear weapons threats by, 53
natural resources oligarchs
economic sanctions by West and, 50 campaign promises made about, 23
Gazprom, 32 chosen as replacement for Yeltsin by, 6, 22
oligarchs and, 6, 24–25, 35 Khodorkovsky and, 24–25
Rosneft, 25 as oligarch-in-chief, 23
2022 invasion of Ukraine and, 53 popularity of, 6
2008 worldwide fi nancial crisis and, 35 Putin on government of Zelenskyy, 7
Navalny, Alexei, 37, 54 socially conservative values stressed during,
Nemtsov, Boris, 35–37, 36 39–40
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 47–48 2014 Russian invasions of Ukraine, 42–44
2022 Russian invasions of Ukraine
Oates, Sarah, 22 casualties, 52
Obama, Barack, 6, 44 early attacks, 49–50
Ocheretnaya, Lyudmila, 11 media censorship during, 54
oligarchs nuclear weapons and, 53
economic sanctions by West and, 50 Putin’s food and energy blackmail, 53–54
natural resources in Russia and, 6, 24–25, 35 Ukrainian response to, 51–52
Putin as president and war crimes committed by Russian army, 4, 5
campaign promises made about, 23 Western response to, 48, 49, 50–51
chosen as replacement for Yeltsin by, 6, 22 2008 Russian invasions, 35
Khodorkovsky and, 24–25 Yeltsin and, 16, 17
as oligarch-in-chief, 23 See also media, Putin’s control of
Yeltsin and, 16, 22 Putin, Vladimir Spiridonovich (father), 8
“On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukraini- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich
ans” (Putin), 48 birth and childhood of, 8–10, 9
Orban, Viktor, 41 breakup of Soviet Union, 6, 27
characteristics of
Patrushev, Nikolai, 31 brutality, 6

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