The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (41 page)
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Authors: Masha Gessen
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no state of emergency:
Alexander Vinnikov, memoir,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, pp. 454–55.
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a “military coup”:
Igor Artemyev, memoir,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 408.
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“We told him that we are planning to go”:
Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
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the arrest did not take place:
Bakatin, p. 21.
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Sobchak called Leningrad:
A. Golovkin and A. Chernov, interview with Anatoly Sobchak,
Moskovskiye novosti
, Aug. 26, 1991, quoted in
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 627.
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“Why did I do so?”
Sobchak, memoir,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 627.
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Moscow’s city council:
Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 131.
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ordered city services:
G. Popov, “Zayavleniye mera goroda Moskvy,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, pp. 68–69.
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Moscow’s deputy mayor,
Yuri Luzhkov:
Center Labyrinth, Luzhkov biography.
http://www.anticompromat.org/luzhkov/luzhkbio.html
. Accessed March 13, 2011.
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the Mariinsky Palace:
Yuli Rybakov, interview,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 612.
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“We call on the people of Russia”:
B. Yeltsin, I. Silayev, and R. Khasbulatov, “K grazhdanam Rossii,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 42.
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He was terrified:
Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, interview,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 681.
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“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.
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“the flag was on a corner”:
Elena Zelinskaya, interview,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 505.
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the coup was not what it had seemed:
Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
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“I had pushed five chairs”:
Shcherbakov, in
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, p. 683.
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“But I was not a KGB officer”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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”Kryuchkov simply would not”:
Author interview with Arseniy Roginsky, Moscow, June 20, 2008.
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The meat was delivered:
Letter from Marina Salye to Chief Comptroller of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, dated March 25, 1992, unpublished.
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Boldyrev had written a letter:
Letter from Yuri Boldyrev to Petr Aven, dated March 13, 1992, document #105-177/n.
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a man with an empty office:
Author interview with Irene Commeaut, Paris, June 2010.
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eager, curious, and intellectually engaged:
Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.
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“The Putins had a dog”:
Marina Yentaltseva, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
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“I believed at the time”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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a 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.
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“I think the city”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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“The point of the whole operation”:
Salye, “Putin—prezident.”
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a 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.”
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Sobchak 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.
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“And here are the papers”:
Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
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“This was different”:
Ibid.
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the Supreme Soviet had a presidium:
http://1993.sovnarkom.ru/TEXT/SPRAVCHN/VSOVET/vsovet1.htm
. Accessed April 2, 2011.
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a 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.
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in favor of supporting Putin:
Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
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“a bureaucratic police regime”:
“Pokhmelkin, Yushenkov, Gologlev i Rybakov vyshli iz SPS,” unsigned news story,
newsru.com
.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/14jan2002/sps.html
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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Yushenkov was shot:
“V Moskve ubit deputat Gosdumy Sergei Yushenkov,” unsigned news story,
newsru.com
.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/17apr2003/killed.html
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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“Sometimes, when we journalists”:
Masha Gessen, “Pamyati Sergeya Yushenkova,” polit.ru, April 18,2003.
http://www.polit.ru//world/2003/04/18/615774.html
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
SIX. THE END OF A REFORMER
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“could be removed by those very same”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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a European Union event in Hamburg:
Vladimir Churov, quoted ibid.
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The city’s economy was in shambles:
Anatoly Sobchak,
Dyuzhina nozhey v spinu
(Moscow: Vagrius/Petro-News, 1999), p. 72.
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relative levels of standard of living:
Original reporting for Masha Gessen, “Printsip Pitera,”
Itogi
, Sept. 5, 2000.
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“There was a concert”:
Alexander Bogdanov, interview,
Obshchestvennaya zhizn’
, pp. 431–32.
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“Not once during this time”:
Radio Liberty interview with Yuri Boldyrev, March 9, 2010.
http://www.svobodanews.ru/articleprintview/1978453.html
. Accessed Dec. 1, 2011.
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“There was a show”:
Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Anna Sharogradskaya, June 1, 2008.
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a brutal attempt on his life:
Sobchak,
Dyuzhina
, pp. 73–78.
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giving out loans and grants:
Boris Vishnevsky, “Kto i zachem kanoniziruyet Sobchaka?” Radio Svoboda, Feb. 25, 2010.
http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1968322.html
. Accessed Oct. 27, 2011.
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Almost all the building’s residents:
“Lyudi oni horoshiye, no kvartirny vopros ih isportil …”
Na strazhe Rodiny
, August 14, 1996; Brian Whitmore, “Is a Probe of City Graft a Tool of City Hall?”
St. Petersburg Times
, April 9, 1998.
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arranged a good post for him:
Gevorkyan et al.
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all but running to the plane:
Ibid.; Boris Vishnevsky,
K demokratii i obratno
.
http://www.yabloko.ru/Publ/Book/Freedom/freedom_054.html
. Accessed April 10, 2011.
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taken verbatim from an American textbook:
Julie Corwin, “Russia: U.S. Academics Charge Putin with Plagiarizing Thesis,” RFERL website, March 27, 2006.
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1067113.html
. Accessed April 10, 2011.
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the
former mayor was aiming:
Peter Reddaway, “Some Notes on the Possible Murder of Sobchak, the Political Career and Persecution of Marina Sal’ye, and Some Related Cases,” unpublished paper.
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“the new Stalin”:
Reddaway.
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The request was urgent:
Author interview with Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya, March 2000.
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he advanced the theory:
Arkady Vaksberg,
Le Laboratoire des Poisons: De Lénine à Poutine
(Paris: Buchet Chastel, 2007).
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Vaksberg’s car was blown up:
Reddaway.
SEVEN. THE DAY THE MEDIA DIED
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its voter rolls swelled:
OSCE Mission report on the March 26, 2000, election, Russian translation.
http://hro-uz.narod.ru/vibori.html
. Accessed May 17, 2011.
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over 52 percent of the vote:
2000 election statistics.
http://www.electoralgeography.com/ru/countries/r/russia/2000-president-elections-russia.html
. Accessed March 17, 2011.
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Kremlin’s historic Great Palace:
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Ya Putina videl!
(Moscow: Eksmo, 2005), p. 13.
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suffered a trauma at birth:
Movement specialist Brenda Connors quoted in Paul Starobin, “The Accidental Autocrat,”
Atlantic
, March 2005.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-accidental-autocrat/3725/
. Accessed May 9, 2011.
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Watch for the Left-handed:
Shamil Idiatullin and Olga Tatarchenko, “Pora perevodit’ chasy na pravuyu ruku,”
Kommersant
, May 18, 2000.
http://www.kommersant.ru/Doc/148145
. Accessed May 19, 2011.
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white-gold Patek Philippe:
“Kakiye chasy nosyat prezidenty i oligarkhi,” unsigned story on
newsru.com
, posted Feb. 17, 2005.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/17feb2005/watch.html
. Accessed May 19, 2011.
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“an old man of short stature”:
Kolesnikov, p. 16.
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“I would like to report”:
Vitaly Yaroshevsky, “Operatsiya ‘Vnedreniye’zavershena,” interview with Olga Kryshtanovskaya,
Novaya Gazeta
, Aug. 30, 2004.
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2004/63/43.html
. Accessed May 19, 2011.
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”He called me in”:
Author interview with Mikhail Kasyanov, Moscow, May 18, 2011.
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defense spending would be increased:
Masha Gessen, “Lockstep to Putin’s New Military Order,”
New York Times
, Feb. 29, 2000, p. 21.
