The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Page 111Moscow’s city council: Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 131.

Page 111ordered city services: G. Popov, “Zayavleniye mera goroda Moskvy,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, pp. 68–69.

Page 111Moscow’s deputy mayor,Yuri Luzhkov: Center Labyrinth, Luzhkov biography. http://www.anticompromat.org/luzhkov/luzhkbio.html. Accessed March 13, 2011.

Page 112the Mariinsky Palace: Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 612.

Page 112“We call on the people of Russia”: B. Yeltsin, I. Silayev, and R. Khasbulatov, “K grazhdanam Rossii,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 42.

Page 112He was terrified: Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 681.

Page 112“What the hell did he do?” Ibid.; author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; text of decree as dictated by Rutskoy and as read by Sobchak, provided by Salye.

Page 114“the flag was on a corner”: Elena Zelinskaya, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 505.

Page 115the coup was not what it had seemed: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 116“I had pushed five chairs”: Shcherbakov, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’

, p. 683.

Page 117“But I was not a KGB officer”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 117”Kryuchkov simply would not”: Author interview with Arseniy Roginsky, Moscow, June 20, 2008.

Page 118The meat was delivered: Letter from Marina Salye to Chief Comptroller of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, dated March 25, 1992, unpublished.

Page 119Boldyrev had written a letter: Letter from Yuri Boldyrev to Petr Aven, dated March 13, 1992, document #105-177/n.

Page 119a man with an empty office: Author interview with Irene Commeaut, Paris, June 2010.

Page 119eager, curious, and intellectually engaged: Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.

Page 119“The Putins had a dog”: Marina Yentaltseva, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

Page 120“I believed at the time”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 122a simple kickback scheme:Otchet rabochey deputatskoy gruppy Komiteta po mezhdunarodnym i vneshnim svyazyam, postoyannykh komissiy po prodovolstviyu, torgovle i sfere bytovykh uslug Sankt-Peterburgskogo gorodskogo Soveta narodnykh deputatov po voprosu kvotirovaniya i litsenzirovaniya eksporta i importa tovarov na territorii Sankt-Peterburga, with a resolution of May 8, 1992, #88; Marina Salye, “Putin—prezident korrumpirovannoy oligarkhii!” obtained from the Glasnost Foundation in Moscow, March 18, 2000.

Page 122“I think the city”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 122“The point of the whole operation”: Salye, “Putin—prezident.”

Page 123a three-page letter:

“Analiz normativnykh dokumentov, izdavayemykh merom i vitse-merom S. Peterburga,” dated Jan. 15, 1992, bears the notation: “Given to B. Yeltsin on 15 January 1992.”

Page 124Sobchak was handing out apartments: See, for example, “Rasporyazheniye mera Sankt-Peterburga o predostavlenii zhiloy ploshchadi Kurkovoy B. A.,” 08.12.1992, #1107-R; and “Rasporyazheniye mera Sankt-Peterburga o predostavlenii zhiloy ploshchadi Stepashinu S. V.,” 16.12.1992, #1147-R.

Page 125“And here are the papers”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 125“This was different”: Ibid.

Page 126the Supreme Soviet had a presidium: http://1993.sovnarkom.ru/TEXT/SPRAVCHN/VSOVET/vsovet1.htm. Accessed April 2, 2011.

Page 127a decree dissolving the St. Petersburg city council: Besik Pipia, “Lensovetu stuknulo 10 let,” Nezavisimaya gazeta, April 5, 2000. http://www.ng.ru/politics/2000-04-05/3_lensovet.html. Accessed April 2, 2011.

Page 127in favor of supporting Putin: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.