Page 9 - Vladimir Putin: Russia's Autocratic Ruler

Index

Note: Boldface page numbers indicate illustrations. Putin meddling in other nations’, 7, 46
Putin on problems with, in democracies, 26
Assad, Bashar al-, 41, 44–45, Russian
Atlantic (magazine), 44 2004, 25, 26, 26
2012, 34–35
Belarus, 41, 49 2018, 42
Berezovsky, Boris, 19 candidates’ media access during, 25, 26
Bermann, Sylvie, 5 new federal districts and, 22
Beslan, 21–22 ethnic Russians in Georgia, 41–42
Biden, Joe, 48, 49 ethnic Russians in Ukraine, 43–44
Bucha, Ukraine, 4, 5 European Court of Human Rights, 21, 37
Bush, George W., 6, 41 European Union (EU), 42, 47
Chechnya, independence movement Federal Security Service (FSB)
bombings in Russia and, 15 basic facts about, 14
Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater hostage situation, “Chechen” bombings in Russia and, 15
20–21, 21 poisoning of Litvinenko and, 31
Politkovskaya’s reporting on, 28 Forbes (magazine), 29
Putin and assault on Grozny, 6, 15–16 Frontline (television program), 34
Putin and 1994 Russian invasion of, 10
school raid in Beslan, 21–22 Gaddy, Clifford G., 14
Cherkasov, Aleksandr, 15 Gazprom (state-run natural gas fi rm), 32
China, 53 Georgia (nation), 35, 41, 49
Clark, Mason, 46 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 12–13
Clinton, Hillary, 32 Grozny, bombing of, 6, 10, 15–16
critics of Putin, fate of Gusinsky, Vladimir, 19, 20
murder of
Klebnikov, 29–30 Haines, Avril, 52–53
Litvinenko, 30–31 Hill, Fiona, 14
Nemtsov, 35–37, 36 Human Rights Watch, 40
Politkovskaya, 28–29, 30 Hungary, 41, 49
poisonings of
Kara-Murza, 37 Illarionov, Andrei, 27
Navalny, 37 India, 53
Ivanovna, Maria (mother), 8
Daalder, Ivo, 48
democracy Kabaeva, Alina, 50
illiberal, 41 Kara-Murza, Vladimir, 37
Medvedev and, 32 KGB
Putin and government of Putin and, 25–26
control of elections in Russia, 25 poisoning methods used by, 14
creation of new federal districts, 22 Putin in
meddling in other nations’ elections, 7, 46 as new recruit, 11
verbal support of, 6, 25 resignation of, 13
Yeltsin and, 13, 16 as spy in East Germany, 5–6, 11–12, 12
de Waal, Thomas, 10 training, 5
Putin’s father and, 8–9
East Germany, 5–6, 11–12, 12 successor to, 14
elections Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 24–25, 35

6262