Vodka Politics (107 page)

61
. Ibid.; Fred Weir, “Russia’s Shrinking Population Mars Putin’s Superpower Ambitions,”
Global Post
, Nov. 3, 2011,
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/111102/russia-population-superpower-health-soviet-union
(accessed Nov. 12, 2011.)

62
. Cited in Graeme P. Herd, “Russia’s Demographic Crisis and Federal Instability,” in
Russian Regions and Regionalism: Strength through Weakness
, ed. Graeme P. Herd and Anne Aldis (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 46. See also Aleksandr Nemtsov,
Alkogol’naya istoriya Rossii: Noveishii period
(Moscow: URSS, 2009), 136.

63
. Ibid., 281–82.

64
. Ibid., 288.

65
. Shevtsova,
Russia—Lost in Transition
, 54.

66
. “Arkady Rotenberg,” thishousewillexist.org,
http://thishousewillexist.org/arkadyrotenberg.php
(accessed Feb. 20, 2012); Simon Shuster, “Vladimir Putin’s Billionaire Boys Judo Club,”
Time
, March 1, 2011,
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2055962,00.html
(accessed Nov. 11, 2011).

67
. Erofeev,
Russkii apokalipsis
, 27.

68
. Evgeniya Al’bats and Anatolii Ermolin, “Korporatsiya “Rossiya”,”
Novoe vremya: The New Times
, Oct. 31, 2011,
http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/45648/
(accessed Nov. 11, 2011). Also see Richard Sakwa,
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 209.

69
. Erofeev,
Russkii apokalipsis
, 28. Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh.”

70
. Ibid.; “Rosspirtprom to Become Federal Brand,”
Kommersant
’, Nov. 22, 2006,
http://www.kommersant.com/p723749/vodka_Rosspritprom
(accessed Nov. 15, 2010.) On Zivenko see
http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/75/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=75&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=L23U&datatype=Person
(accessed Feb. 20, 2012); Alex Nicholson, “New Shot Fired in Vodka Battle,” SPI Group Media Stories, Jan. 14, 2004,
http://www.spi-group.com/about-spi-group/company-news/media_stories/new-shot-fired-in-vodka-battle-the-moscow-times-14–01-2004
(accessed Feb. 20, 2012). see also: Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh.”

71
. Yuliya Yarosh and Il’ya Bulavinov, “Arkadii Rotenberg: Nikto ne mozhet skazat’, chto ya kogo-to unizil, u kogo-to chto-to otnyal,”
Kommersant
’, April 28, 2010,
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1361793
(accessed Feb. 20, 2012).

72
. See
http://www.forbes.com/profile/arkady-rotenberg
(Accessed Feb. 20, 2012).

73
. Ledeneva,
Can Russia Modernise?
96; specific to the alcohol industry see 56–60, 217.

74
. Andrew Osborn, “Will Russia’s Putinka Outlast the President?”
Wall Street Journal
, May 29, 2007,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118039981514116698.html
(accessed Aug. 14, 2009). See also “‘Crystal’ Has Suspended Production of ‘Putinka’,” WineLiquorMart (blog), April 19, 2011,
http://wineliquormart.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/crystal-has-suspended-production-of-putinka/
(accessed Jan. 14, 2012). On brand loyalty see Petrov, “Kak v kaple vodki,” 148.

75
. Marya Levintova, “Russian Alcohol Policy in the Making,”
Alcohol and Alcoholism
42, no. 5 (2007): 502.

76
. Nemtsov,
Alkogol’naya istoriya Rossii
, 286.

77
. Claire Bigg, “Russia: Alcohol Reform Blamed for Outbreak of Poisonings,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Oct. 30, 2006,
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1072399.html
(accessed Dec. 8, 2008); Levintova, “Russian Alcohol Policy in the Making,” 502.

78
. Valery P. Goreglyad, “Otchet o rezul’tatakh kontrol’nogo meropriyatiya ‘proverka effektivnosti ispol’zovaniya federal’noi sobstvennosti, peredannoi federal’nomu gosudarstvennomu unitarnomu predpriyatiyu Rosspirtprom, za 2005–2006 gody’,”
Byletten’ Schetnoi palaty Rossiiskoi Federatsii
124, no. 4 (2008),
http://www.budgetrf.ru/Publications/Schpalata/2008/ACH200805211952/word/ACH200805211952_000.zip/
.

79
. Ibid.

80
. Howard Amos, “Fast VTB Growth Raises Eyebrows,”
Moscow Times
, Jan. 19 2012,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/fast-vtb-growth-raises-eyebrows/451249.html
(accessed Jan. 23, 2012); “VTB Sues Rosspirtprom,” PMR, Feb. 11, 2010,
http://www.russiaretail.com/81995/VTB-sues-Rosspirtprom.shtml
(accessed March 7, 2012); Julia Ioffe, “Net Impact: One Man’s Cyber-Crusade against Russian Corruption,”
New Yorker
, April 4, 2011,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe?currentPage=all
(accessed April 11, 2011). For Alexei Navalny on VTB see
http://navalny.livejournal.com/tag/BTB
; also, Fond bor’by s korruptsiei,
Fit for International Financial Markets? A Closer Look at VTB Group’s Practices
(London: Henry Jackson Society 2012). Of course, it also helped that members of the board of directors of Kristall and other Rosspirtprom holdings, like Igor’ Kriskovets, were also on the board of directors of VTB. Nina Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh,”
Novaya gazeta
, March 4, 2011,
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/6856.html
(accessed Feb. 20, 2012).

81
. Goreglyad, “Proverka effektivnosti.” Rosspirtprom was not alone: Russia’s largest factory, Istok in North Ossetia—like manufacturers throughout the country—also was struggling. Nina Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh.”

82
. Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh”; Dmitry Sergeyev, “Russian Bank VTB Gets Control of 11 Distilleries,” Reuters, Oct. 5, 2009,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/05/vtb-vodka-idUSL53868020091005
(accessed Nov. 11, 2009).

83
. Andrew Scott Barnes,
Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), 119.

84
. Peter Rutland, “The Oligarchs and Economic Development,” in
After Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
, ed. Stephen K. Wegren and Dale R. Herspring (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), 172.

85
. Phoebe Eaton, “How Much Is That in Rubles?”
New York
, May 21, 2005,
http://nymag.com/print/?/nymetro/news/people/features/9873
(accessed Nov. 11, 2011.)

86
. Elena Tokareva, “Gruzinskii skandal rossiiskogo oligarkha,”
Stringer
, Jan. 26, 2011,
http://www.stringer.ru/publication.mhtml?Part=48&PubID=15616
(accessed Jan. 12, 2012); Petlyanova, “Soobrazili na svoikh.”

87
. Oleg Trutnev and Kristina Bus’ko, “Vasilii Anisimov predskazal po ‘Kristallu’,”
Kommersant
’, May 31, 2011,
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1650972
(accessed Feb. 24, 2012). See also Oleg Trutnev, “‘Rosspirtprom‘ i polyaki mutyat vodki,”
Kommersant
’ Sept. 15, 2011,
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1773740
(accessed Feb. 24, 2012). See also Rinat Sagdiev, “Vasiliyu Anisimovu i ‘Rosspirtpromu’ vodochnye kompanii dostalis’ bez chasti aktivov i s predstavitelyami struktur Arkadiya Rotenberga v sovetakh direktorov,” Kompromat.ru, Feb. 18, 2010,
http://www.compromat.ru/page_28855.htm
(accessed Nov. 5, 2011).

88
. Oleg Trutnev, “‘Kristall’ ne nalivaet,”
Kommersant
’, Jan. 18, 2012,
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1853092
(accessed Jan. 19, 2012).

Chapter 23

1
. Dmitrii Medvedev, “Rossiya, vpered!” Kremlin.ru, Sept. 10, 2009,
http://news.kremlin.ru/news/5413
(accessed March 1, 2012). See Richard Sakwa,
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 347–50.

2
. Mezhduregionalnoye dvizhenie ‘Edinstvo’ or MeDvEd.

3
. Which in turn is borrowed from a description of Sergei Witte. Daniel Treisman,
The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 123, 419.

4
. Andrei Vandenko, “Prostye istiny,”
Itogi
, Feb. 18, 2008,
http://www.itogi.ru/russia/2008/8/3759.html
(accessed March 7, 2012). Medvedev grew up on Western rock bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath—which is not important politically but is definitely an upgrade over Putin’s unhealthy fixation with the Swedish super group ABBA. “‘Money, Money, Money’ for Putin,”
Moscow Times
, Feb. 6, 2009. See also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahnZYdjd7Ww
(accessed March 2, 2012).

5
. Treisman,
Return
, 137; Sakwa,
Crisis of Russian Diplomacy
, 98–101.

6
. Leonid Abalkin, “Razmyshleniya o dolgosrochnoi strategii, nauke i demokratii,”
Voprosi ekonomiki
12 (2006): 15; quoted in Stephen White,
Understanding Russian Politics
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 148. See also ibid., 105–6; Jason Bush, “Russia’s New Deal,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, March 29, 2007,
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2007/gb20070329_226664.htm?chan=search
(accessed Feb. 29, 2012).

7
. Cable 08MOSCOW558, “Medvedev and Russia’s National Priority Projects—All Hat, No Cattle?” Feb. 28, 2008,
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/02/08MOSCOW558.html
; Cable 06MOSCOW12764, “Russians Still Cynical about National Priority Projects,” Dec. 4, 2006,
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/12/06MOSCOW12764.html
(accessed March 3, 2012).

8
. Stephen K. Wegren and Dale R. Herspring, “Introduction,” in
After Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
, ed. Stephen K. Wegren and Dale R. Herspring (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), 5.

9
. Stephen Colbert, “Un-American News: Financial Edition,”
The Colbert Report
, Oct. 6, 2008,
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/187306/october-06–2008/
un-american-news—financial-edition, and “Cold War Update: Russia,”
The Colbert Report
, May 12, 2008,
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/168292/may-12-2008/cold-war-update—russia
(accessed March 2, 2012).

10
. Wegren and Herspring, “Introduction,” 6–7. On loyalty and trust being the most important values in the ruling
sistema
see Alena V. Ledeneva,
Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 39.

11
. Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski, “Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis,” in
Russia after the Global Economic Crisis
, ed. Anders Åslund, Sergei Guriev, and Andrew Kuchins (Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010), 13–17.

12
. Ronald D. Asmus,
A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 49; for the role of alcohol in the war see, 33, 151.

13
. Guriev and Tsyvinski, “Challenges Facing the Russian Economy,” 16–30.

14
. Il’ya Barabanov, “Luchshaya rol’ vtorogo plana,”
Novoe vremya/New Times
, May 11, 2009,
http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/3161
(accessed March 3, 2012); Treisman,
Return
, 140–41. See also President of Russia, official web portal,
http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/text/news/2009/04/214779.shtml
.

15
. Maria Levina, “National Projects under Crisis Watch,”
Moscow Times
, Nov.14, 2008,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/national-projects-under-crisis-watch/372358.html
(accessed March 2, 2012); Treisman,
Return
, 138.

16
. “Medvedev Angered by Officials’ Demagogy,”
RT.com
, July 29, 2010,
http://rt.com/news/sci-tech/medvedev-national-projects-council
(accessed Aug. 15, 2010). Also see Sakwa,
Crisis of Russian Diplomacy
, 312.

17
. Julia Ioffe, “Net Impact: One Man’s Cyber-Crusade against Russian Corruption,”
New Yorker
, April 4, 2011,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe?currentPage=all
(accessed April 10, 2011). On the resignation of “Mr. Unibrow,” Oleg Simakov, see “Glava departamenta informatizatsii Minzdravsotsrazvitiya Simakov ushel v otstavku,”
Gazeta.ru
, Oct. 13, 2010.
http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lastnews/2010/10/13/n_1559346.shtml
(accessed March 6, 2012).

18
. Tom Balmforth and Gregory Feifer, “Russian Health Care Provides No Real Safety Net,”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
, Aug. 14, 2011,
http://www.rferl.org/content/russian_healt_car_provides_no_real_safety_net/24296527.html
(accessed Feb. 11, 2012); Reuters, “Russians Wrongly Think They’re Healthy,”
Moscow Times
, April 27, 2011,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russians-wrongly-think-theyre-healthy/435851.html
(accessed April 28, 2011).