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disconnection from reality, 7 Tusk, Donald, 40
lying by, 5
obsession with place in history, 42 Ukraine
self-control, 18, 52–53 Crimea, 43, 47, 49
education of, 10, 11 Donbas region, 44, 47, 49
on election problems in democracies, 26 Donetsk, 49, 49
on fall of Berlin Wall, 12 EU and, 42, 47
in KGB Kharkiv, 50
as new recruit, 11 Kyiv, 49, 50, 55
resignation of, 13 Luhansk, 49, 49
as spy in East Germany, 5–6, 11–12, 12 map, 49
training, 5 Mariupol, 52
macho image of, 31, 34 as part of Russia, 47, 48
marriage of, 11, 50 as territory belonging to Russia, 47
as master and prisoner of Kremlin, 34 2008 Russian invasion of, 35
Medvedev and, 32–33, 33 2014 Russian invasion of, 42–44
on Russia as “friendly European nation,” 17 2022 Russian invasion of
in Sobchak administration in St. Petersburg, 13 casualties, 52
on traditional values, 40 early attacks, 49–50
on 2022 invasion of Ukraine, 50, 51 media censorship in Russia, 54
UN address by, 44–45 Putin’s food and energy blackmail, 53–54
unity of Russia and Ukraine, 47, 48 Putin’s nuclear weapons threat, 53
wealth of, 23 Ukrainian response to, 51–52
in Yeltsin’s administration of, 10, 13–16 war crimes committed by Russian army, 4,
5
Qaddafi, Muammar, 33 Western response to, 48, 49, 50–51
Zelenskyy on, 48–49
Rice, Condoleezza, 41–42, 53 United Nations, 44–45
Rosalsky, Greg, 23 United Russia Party, 22
Rosneft (state-owned energy company), 25 United States
Russian Federation. See Yeltsin, Boris Putin considered possible ally by, 6
Russian Orthodox Church, 39–40, 42 response to 2022 invasion of Ukraine, 48,
Ryabov, Andrei, 20 49, 50–51
response to Russian troops in Georgia, 41
Saldatov, Andrei, 30
sambo, 10 Vaksberg, Arkady, 14
Saradzhyan, Simon, 35
Scholl, Suzana, 29 Wikileaks, 46
Simonov, Alexei, 29
Smyth, Regina, 22 Yanukovych, Viktor, 42
Snowden, Edward, 38, 39 Yeltsin, Boris
Snyder, Timothy, 54 program of, 6, 13, 16
Sobchak, Anatoly Putin in administration of
death of, 14, 17 as director of FSB, 14
as mayor of St. Petersburg, 13 early position and rise of, 13–14
Medvedev and, 32 as prime minister, 10, 14–16
as mentor to Putin, 11 Putin named president by, 16, 17
South Ossetia, 41 Yukos, 24–25
Soviet Union
collapse of, 6, 13, 27 Zelenskyy, Volodymyr
under Gorbachev, 13 background of, 50
Syria, 44–45, 45 NATO membership and, 47
Putin on government of, 7
Thoburn, Hannah, 46 refusal to leave Ukraine, 51
Trump, Donald, 46 on Russian invasion, 48–49
Truss, Liz, 50 Zygar, Mikhail, 42

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