The Russia Conundrum

Here Khodorkovsky arriving at his trial in Moscow surrounded by prison guards, 2009 – © Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/Shutterstock

Here Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrives at the courthouse in Moscow – © MIKHAIL SMIRNOV/AFP via Getty Images

Here Khodorkovsky behind bars in the courtroom, surrounded by press – © TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP via Getty Images

Here Khodorkovsky in YaG-14/10 prison camp, Siberia – © Thierry Esch/Paris Match via Getty Images

Here Vasily Aleksanyan sits in court – © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Khodorkovsky reunited with parents Marina and Boris, and son Pavel, December 2013 – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here A woman shows support for Khodorkovsky during a rally, Moscow, 14 April 2007 – © UPI / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Vladimir Putin in Tuva, 2007 – © DMITRY ASTAKHOV/RIA NOVOSTI/AFP via Getty Images

Here Pussy Riot perform at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow – © Sergey Ponomarev/Shutterstock

Here Olympics Pussy Riot protest, Sochi, 2014 – © Morry Gash/AP/Shutterstock

Here Yevgeny Prigozhin serves Vladimir Putin at a banquet near Moscow, November 2011 – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here FBI Wanted poster for Yevgeny Prigozhin – © Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Here A woman at Joseph Stalin’s memorial ceremony, Moscow, 5 March 2016 – © YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images

Here US Capitol under siege on 6 January 2021 – © Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Here Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, Fisherton Road, Salisbury, 4 March 2018 – © Metropolitan Police/AP/Shutterstock

Here Alexei Navalny in a cage, Babuskinsky District Court, Moscow – © Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Shutterstock

Here ‘Heroes of recent times’ banner in St Petersburg’s Pushkarsky Park – © Petrov Ivan Sergeevich

Here A worker paints over graffiti depicting Alexei Navalny, St Petersburg – © REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Here Mural of masked, helmeted figure, St Petersburg – © Darya Borisova

Here Police officers detain a woman in Moscow, March 2021 – © Victor Berezkin/AP/Shutterstock

Here Khodorkovsky speaks during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, 9 March 2014 – © UPI / Alamy Stock Photo

INDEX

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Akhmatova, Anna

Albright, Madeleine

Aleksanyan, Vasily

Alekseeva, Lyudmila

Alexander I, Tsar

Alexander III, Tsar

Alexander Nevsky, Prince

Andropov, Yuri

Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)

anti-Westernism

Apatit

Arab Spring

Asch, Solomon

Assad, Bashar al-

assassinations

Atlantic Council

August coup (1991)

authoritarianism

autocracy

Baburova, Anastasia

Badanin, Roman

Baikal Finance Group

Bakatin, Vadim

Baltic states

banks, private

Bashneft

Bastrykin, Alexander

BBC

Begun, Josef

Bellingcat

Berezovsky, Boris

Beslan school massacre (2004)

Beyrle, John

Biden, Joe

Bogacheva, Alexandra

Bogdanov, Vladimir

Bolotnaya (Snow), Revolution

Bolsheviks

Borodin, Vitaly

Bortnikov, Alexander

Boshirov, Ruslan

brain drain see emigration

Brezhnev, Leonid

bribery

Browder, William (Bill)

Buffet, Warren

Bukato, Viktor

Burchik, Mikhail

Bush, George

business involvement in politics

BusinessWeek

Bystrov, Mikhail

Carey Reilly, Sarah

Cartledge, Bryan

Catherine the Great

censorship see media control

Central African Republic (CAR)

Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Chaadayev, Pyotr

Chatham House

Chechnya

Cheka

Chemezov, Sergei

chemical weapons

Cherkesov, Viktor

Chernenko, Konstantin

ChevronTexaco

Chicago Boys

China

oil pipeline

relations with Russia

Chubais, Anatoly

CIA

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

Cold War, new (2020)

collectivism

colour revolutions

Committee to Protect Journalists

computer and IT industry

Concord Management and Consulting Group

conformity

conscripts

Conway, Kellyanne

corporate raiding see reiderstvo

corruption

COVID

Crimea

annexation (2014)

given to Ukraine (1954)

Cromwell, Oliver

cyberattacks

Daley, Tom

deep state

democracy

democracy, managed

Deripaska, Oleg

dioxin

Donbas

Dossier Center

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Drezner, Daniel

Dyumin, Alexei

Dzerzhinsky, Felix (statue of)

Dzhemal, Orkhan

economic blackmail see greenmailing

economy

centralised command economy

‘economic shock therapy’

financial crisis (1998)

free enterprise

GDP

low-tax zones

private enterprise

privatisation

recession (2014)

renationalisation

restructuring (1992)

state-owned firms, increase in

as a tool of politics

voucher privatisation

see also money laundering; offshoring wealth; sanctions

elections

emigration (brain drain)

Ernst, Konstantin

Estemirova, Natalya

European Choice

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

Eurovision

ExxonMobil

Facebook

fake news

FBI

FBK see Anti-Corruption Foundation

Federation of Internet Education

Feoktistov, Oleg

Flinge, Irina

Flynn, Mike

food embargo

Forbes

foreign agent law

foreign currency trading

Fox

Fradkov, Mikhail

Freedom of Information Society

FSB