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

Page 234“The esprit de corps was like”: Author interview with William Browder, London, May 13, 2011.

Page 235devising ways to squeeze cash: Hoffman, The Oligarchs.

Page 236“Those who wanted to make”: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Leonid Nevzlin, Chelovek s rublem. http://lit.lib.ru/n/newzlin_l_b/text_0010.shtml. Accessed July 16, 2011.

Page 236“I would go to our oil rigs”: Ludmila Ulitskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “Dialogi,”

Znamya, no. 10 (2009). http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2009/10/ul12.html. Accessed July 16, 2011.

Page 237“Until that point … I saw”: Ibid.

Page 238“Before Pricewaterhouse came along”: Author interview with Pavel Ivlev, New York City, July 2, 2011.

Page 238“We would set up”: Author interview with Charles Krause, New York City, June 30, 2011.

Page 239I had heard it once: This talk was given in Zvenigorod on Oct. 27, 2002.

Page 240Khodorkovsky told Litvinovich to return to Moscow: Author interview with Marina Litvinovich, December 2009.

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two to three times those in the government sector: “Korruptsiya v Rossii—tormoz ekonomicheskogo rosta,” a slide presentation acquired from the Khodorkovsky Press Center in Moscow, June 2011.

Page 241“Everyone thinks”: Kolesnikov, Ya Putina videl!, p. 284.

Page 242He got the same smirk on his face: Video footage of the meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KLzF3_-ShU&NR=1. Accessed July 17, 2011.

Page 242“It took three or four attempts”: Author interview with Mikhail Kasyanov, Moscow, May 2011.

Page 242had “of course” been cleared by the Kremlin: Author interview with Leonid Nevzlin, Greenwich, Conn., July 1, 2011.

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“He did not go”: Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011.

Page 243“We should … fully support [Putin]”:Moscow Times, Jan. 21, 2004. Full text: http://hermitagefund.com/newsandmedia/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=312. Accessed July 17, 2011.

Page 247he argued he should be released: Sergei Magnitsky court testimony, unpublished document.

Page 248more corrupt than 86 percent of the world: Transparency International, Global Corruption Reports 2003 and 2010. http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr. Accessed July 17, 2011. The actual rankings are 86 for 2003 and 154 for 2010, but because of the changing total number of countries in the reports (133 in 2003 and 178 in 2010), I give the figures here as percentages.

Page 248“Everyone had their own turning point”: Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011. Illarionov’s subsequent comments are from the same interview.

Page 249“different set of rails”:

Andrei Illarionov, “Drugaya Strana,” originally published in Kommersant, Jan. 27, 2006. http://www.liberal.ru/anons/312. Accessed July 17, 2011.

Page 250he fired his cabinet: “Kasyanov, Mikhail,” unsigned Lentapedia dossier. http://lenta.ru/lib/14159606/full.htm. Accessed July 17, 2011.

Page 252To visit their client: Author interview with Karina Moskalenko, Strasbourg, July 5, 2011.

Page 253now run by Putin’s former deputy: “Miller, Alexei,” an unsigned Lentapedia dossier. http://lenta.ru/lib/14160384/. Accessed July 18, 2011.

Page 253lasted all of two minutes: Yelena Lubarskaya, “‘Yuganskneftegaz’utopili v ‘Baikale,’” lenta.ru, Dec. 20, 2004. http://lenta.ru/articles/2004/12/20/ugansk/. Accessed July 18, 2011. Denis Skorobogat’ko, Dmitry Butrin, and Nikolai Kovalev, “‘Yugansk’ kupili ludi iz ‘Londona,’” Kommersant, Dec. 12, 2004. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/534631?isSearch=True. Accessed July 18, 2011. “Russia to Hold Yukos Auction Despite US Ruling,” unsigned news story on MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6726341/. Accessed July 18, 2011.

Page 254in the course of a rigged auction: “‘Rosneft’ kupila ‘Baikalfinansgrup,’ poluchiv control nad ‘Yuganskneftegazom,’” unsigned news story, newsru.com. http://www.newsru.com/finance/23dec2004/rosneft.html. Accessed July 18, 2011.