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Authors: Alex Goldfarb

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Sakharov Museum and Civic Center, 239

Samara, Russia, 337

Samashki, Chechnya, 24

Sarov nuclear facility, 337

Saudi Arabia, 152

Savostyanov, Evgeny, 127

Scaramella, Mario, 318, 339, 340-41, 342

Scheglov, German, 132, 146

Schekochihin, Yuri, 348

Berezovsky disliked by, 133

Blowing Up Russia
serialization and, 246

Chechen peace movement and, 290

death of, 279, 281

as Duma member, 133, 198, 246, 263

FSB investigation of, 133-34

as journalist, 133-34, 158, 196, 246

Moscow bombing investigation and, 263, 281

Ryazan bomb scare and, 198

Skuratov scandal and, 158

Schelenkov, Andrei, 246

School 101 (of KGB), 179

Science Ministry, Russian, 50

Scotland Yard, 302, 323-24, 325, 331, 335, 338, 339, 340, 343, 344

Seleznyov, Gennady, 265-66

Senate, U.S., Moscow bombings investigation and, 259, 283

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 152, 248, 256

Moscow bombings as analagous to, 253-54, 258

Serbia, 159 Sergei (Aliona Morozova’s boyfriend), 255

Sergei (bodyguard), 112

Seymour Menzies Solicitors, 243

Shaimiyev, Mintimer, 87

Shaposhnikov, Evgeny, 141

Shaw, Peter, 297

Shebalin, Viktor, 126

as whistle-blower, 130-31, 145-46

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 271, 290

Shugaeva, Ekaterina, 337

Shvets, Yuri, 342-43

Sibneft, 54-57, 110, 111, 154

Skoropupov, Vladimir, 237

Skuratov, Yuri, 244

Berezovsky and, 146, 154-55, 157-58, 161, 186

Litvinenko prosecution and, 160, 165, 171

Sobchak prosecution and, 135

URPO investigation and, 146

Sleptsovskaya, Chechnya, 241

Slonim, Masha, 180

Smith, Adam, 48

Sobchak, Anatoly, 135, 172

Sokolenko, Vladislav, 341

Solntsevo gang, 30, 39

Solovyov, Ivan, 303-4, 305

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 241

Sontag, Susan, 294

Soros, George, 46-49, 60

Bank of England and, 47, 50

Berezovsky and, 46-47, 49, 50, 51, 55-56, 64, 98, 109-12, 114-15, 116-17, 215-16, 229-31, 346, 347

Chernomyrdin’s meeting with, 69-71

Chubais and, 47-49, 116-17

election of 1996 and, 63-64, 69-71

Gaidar’s anti-Berezovsky letter to, 346, 347

Gazprom deal and, 109-12, 114-15

as philanthropist, 48, 49-50, 56

pound devaluation and, 47, 50

Putin and, 231

Russian economic crisis and, 138-40

Russian Internet program of, 69-71

Russian prison health project of, 4, 203

Russian privatization and, 48-49, 51

Sibneft deal and, 55-56 Svyazinvest deal and, 115-16, 229-30

Yavlinsky and, 60, 63

Zyuganov and, 69-71

Soros Foundation, 50, 106, 110

Soskovets, Oleg, 52, 62

election of 1996 and, 63, 66, 67, 76, 81

Soviet Union, 22, 32, 45, 48, 49, 52, 60, 141

dissident movement in, 233, 238-39, 242-43, 271

dissolution of, 70, 85, 86, 87, 241, 300-301

SP-117 (drug), 308

Spain, 297

Special Tasks
(Sudoplatov), 124

Spetsnaz (Russian special forces), 310, 342

Stalin, Joseph, 45, 76, 94, 113, 164, 205, 249, 258

Starovoitova, Galina, 37

State Department, U.S., 98, 248, 258

Stepashin, Sergei, 144, 152, 164, 172, 175

second Chechen war and, 187-88, 198, 215, 216

Sudoplatov, Pavel, 124

Sunday Times
, 303, 321, 325

Supreme Court, Russian, 138

Surkov, Vladislav, 295

Svetlichnaya, Yulia, 342

Svobodny, Chechnya, 247

SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service), 38, 120, 140, 303

Aeroflot and, 142-43

Svyazinvest, 115-16, 123, 229-30

Switzerland, 37-38, 47-48, 59-62, 63-64, 69, 142

Zakayev-Rybkin meeting in, 288-90

Talbott, Strobe, 207

Tales of a Kremlin Digger
(Tregubova), 182-84

tariffs, 49

Tatarstan, 87

Tatum, Paul, 124

Tbilisi, Georgia, 260-62, 271

Techsnabexport, 337

telecom industry, 115-16

Telefonica de Espana, 116

television, 33-37, 46, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57, 113

Chechen conflict and, 61, 88, 90, 101, 102, 103, 117, 160, 236-37, 305

election of 1996 and, 60, 64, 68, 77, 79, 80-81

Kursk
disaster and, 209-12, 234

Lebed “Russian Legion” issue and, 99

Litvinenko confession and, 131, 132, 137

Rokhlin murder and, 137

Russian government’s crackdown on, 154, 173, 205, 208, 210, 212, 233-36, 237, 238, 249, 270, 283, 315, 344

Soviet Union’s collapse and, 86

Terkibayev, Khanpash, 274-76, 291

thallium, 320-21, 322, 324, 326, 327, 336

Time
, 249, 251-52

Tregubova, Elena, 182-84

Trepashkin, Mikhail:

arrest and imprisonment of, 282-83, 286

Berezovsky and, 285

as FSB agent, 267-68, 284

Goldfarb and, 267-69, 283-86

as KGB agent, 267, 284

Litvinenko and, 122, 132, 134, 146, 147, 285, 297

Moscow bombings investigation and, 257, 263, 264, 266-69, 273, 276-77, 281-83, 284

Moscow theater siege investigation and, 284

Trepashkina, Tatyana, 284-86

Trier, Lars von, 294

Triumph Fund, 50

Trofimov, Anatoly:

Berezovsky and, 35-36, 37, 73-74

Korzhakov and, 71-72

Litvinenko and, 35-36, 37, 69, 73-74, 120, 137, 138, 147, 342

murder of, 137

Trotsky, Leon, 124, 249

Tshai, Vladimir, 246-47

Turkey, 101, 151, 160, 187

Dudayev assassination and, 91, 92

Litvinenko defection and, 3-17, 223, 224-25, 229-31

Russian illegals in, 11

Turkish Airlines, 15-17

Turkish Times
, 11

TV-6, 238, 249

Udugov, Movladi, 106, 113, 151, 186-88, 215, 216, 281, 313

UES, 139

Ukraine, 110, 283-86

Orange Revolution in, 285, 307, 315-16, 347

Rybkin’s disappearance in, 307-9

Unexim Bank, 111, 123

Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers, 238, 249, 290, 305-6, 310, 311-12

Union of Right Forces (SPS), 294-95

United Nations (UN), 201, 290

United States of America:

Chechen conflict and, 187, 248, 260, 272-73, 288, 311

Dudayev assassination and, 91-92, 96, 101, 120, 224

Litvinenko defection and, 4-5, 230-31, 243

Moscow bombings investigation and, 257-59

Russian opposition movement and, 248, 310

Serbia and, 159

Unity Party, 191, 192, 194

University College Hospital (UCH), 322-30

URPO (Division of Operations against Criminal Organizations), 118-27, 137, 145-47, 214, 268, 342

Uzbekistan, 119

Vanderbilt University, 49

Vershbow, Alexander, 276

Vinnik, Alexander, 278

Vlasov, Valentin, 134, 152

Volga Automobile Factory (VAZ), 30-31, 63

Volgodonsk, Russia, 190, 265-66

Volgograd, Russia, 103

Volkov, Alexander, 37, 93

Volokh, Vyachelsav, 97, 118, 119, 120

Voloshin, Alexander, 155, 159, 171, 196

as Putin adviser, 202, 203, 206, 207, 210-11, 236

Voloshin, Pavel, 196-98

Vorobiev, Lt. Col., 247

Wall Street Journal
, 296

Washington, D.C., 4-5

Washington Post
, 207, 273

Watergate scandal, 335

Wilde, Oscar, 166

Wood, Sir Andrew, 153

Woodrow Wilson Center, 259

Workman, Timothy, 298, 300, 302, 305, 329

World Bank, 50, 63

World Chechen Congress, 291

World Economic Forum, 47-48, 59-62, 63-64, 69

World War II, 22, 90, 178, 225, 258

Yabloko Party, 133

Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan, 77, 86, 106, 294

assassination of, 309

Yanukovich, Viktor, 316

Yastrzhembsky, Sergei, 292

Yavlinsky, Grigory, 60, 63, 65, 78, 177, 194

Yegorov, Nikolai, 63

Yeltsin, Boris, 32-34, 195, 204, 207, 230

Aeroflot reorganization and, 141

Berezovsky and, 66-67, 123, 156, 174

Chechen conflict and, 47-48, 51, 54, 76-77, 85, 87-88, 90-91, 92, 94, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 189, 195, 289

Chechen kidnappings and, 153

Chubais and, 63, 76-77, 97-98, 116-17, 123, 126, 345

Communist coup attempt and, 240

election of 1996 and, 52, 60, 62-63, 64-68, 74-77, 78, 80-82

election of 1999 and, 192

election of 2000 and, 164, 172, 174

“family” of advisers to, 155, 161, 171, 201-2, 272

FSB and, 3-4

health of, 64, 97-98, 100, 147, 155, 156, 158, 186

Korzhakov fired by, 81, 126

Lebed fired by, 99

Litvinenko’s unsent memorandum to, 39

Primakov and, 144-45, 155, 156, 161, 172

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