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Introduction

1.  “Russian Will” 'enemies of the nation'. Although no longer on the site, it can be viewed using an internet archive tool here.
5.   Interview with Mr Putin in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung 
Speech given by Mr Putin in Munich regarding Ms Politkovskaya's murder
8.   Aleksander Litvinenko's last statement
17.  Lew Rockwell’s moral equivalence. the geopolitics of persuading former Soviet satellites to join NATO and the U.N.
23.  Russian Oil pipeline to Lithuania: wider ramifications 
24.  Russian pressure on Lithuania as reported in The Economist 
'Bronze meddling' in Estonia as reported in The Economist

1 Putin’s Rise to Power

2. Often described as ‘fluent’ and ‘native-level’, Mr Putin’s German is grammatically correct but heavily accented and would be better described as ‘passable’ or ‘comprehensible’. Watch here for an edited sequence in which he clumsily berates a protester at a press conference.
7.  'The Making of a neo-KGB state' in The Economist
16. Pavel Borodin: The Kremlin's housekeeper, in The Economist
17. 'Yeltsin linked to bribe scandal' as reported by the BBC 
'Accusations of bribery mount up' as reported in the New York Times
28.  Conspiracy theories believed by serious politicians such as Grigory Yavlinsky  (in Russian)

2. Putin in Power

2.  The clip is also included on this excellent (Russian-language) documentary about the sinking of the Kursk
5.  Hudson Institute colloquium, ‘US—Russian Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?’
11.  From ‘Clientelism’ to a ‘Client-centred Orientation’? The Challenge of Public Administration Reform in Russia, OECD 2007 is available here
18. Speech by Mr Putin in response to attacks in Belsan, North Ossetia

3. Sinister Pretence: The Kremlin’s Use of State Power Against Dissent

5. The case of 'Yelena' and Svetlana Savitskaya as reported in Yezhednevniy Zhurnal (Daily Journal) on 22 June 2007
8.  Russia's iceberg: a Nizhny Novgorod report 
An account of the Nizhny Novgorod demonstration (in Russian)
10.  Izvestia on extremism here
12. “Russian Media Is Like 'Brezhnev-Era Propaganda'” Der Spieel interview with Aleksandr Lebedev , September 3, 2007
15. “Reporters, CPJ brief Congressional caucus on dangers facing Russian journalists”, June 28, 2007
16. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian) on shortcomings in the justice system
19. FOM poll on Russian cynicism and apathy about politics and media
21.  OSCE report on Russian presidental election 2004 (pdf)
22.  Kommersant on Putin’s private fortune
24. Rossiiskaya Gazeta on “extremism”
25.  Russia’s dismal scores on corruption from Transparency International
and reported here in the International Herald Tribune and here in Rossiiskaya Gazeta
27.  The International Bar Association’s report on the Russian judiciary (pdf)
30.  The Washington Post on the authorities bullying of defence lawyers
40. Novye Izvestiya (in Russian) on scary extremist youth movements
41.  Mendelson and Gerber’s excellent report on political views
48. Tepid international support for Britain reported in the London Guardian
49.  And the Kremlin’s incomprehending reaction to the British complaints in the Daily Telegraph

4 Why Money Is Russia’s Greatest Strength and Our Greatest Weakness

2. Renaissance Capital’s “Putin's economy eight years on” by Katya Malofeeva and Tim Brenton
4.  Andrei Illarionov’s resignation reported by the BBC
5.  Now at the Cato Institute, Andrei Illarionov gives an ex-insider’s account of Russia’s economic shortcomings. The power point presentation is here.
7.  Boris Titov complains to Finansovye Izvestiya (in Russian) about the low share of small firms in Russia's GDP
8. Andrei Illarionov complains in Yezhednevniy Zhurnal 
10. Galina Stolyarova in Transitions Online (charge €2.50)
13. PwC's removal of audit reports on Yukos
14.  PwC standing by their audit reports on Yukos
15.  PwC protesting its innocence
16. Official Position of PricewaterhouseCoopers Regarding the Claims of Tax Inspectorate 5
18. Kommersant comments cynically on Schröder’s new job

5 The ‘New Tsarism’: What Makes Russia’s Leaders Tick

4.  ‘Vladimir Zhirinovsky on the sexual problems of Condoleeza Rice’ (in Russian), by Yaroslava Krestovskaya, Pravda, 9 January 2006
14.   Vladimir Putin's Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, 25 April 2005:
In English
In Russian
15. Kremlin rejects 'foreign' approach to Russian history
16. Meeting with participants in the National Russian Conference of Human ities and Social Sciences Teachers, 21 June 2007, Novo-Ogaryovo
In English
In Russian
17.  Background to how A Modern History of Russia, 1945-2006, A Teachers' Manual is attempting to rewrite Stalin and Stalinism and more on the attempt to rewrite Stalin and Stalinism
18.  Mr Putin equates the Great Terror of 1937 to America's dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima
21. Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 8 September 2007, revives the Soviet-era lie that the murder of Polish officers at Katyn was actually a Nazi crime.
23. Facsimile of the the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939 and how the Kremlin views the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact now
28.  Jamestown Foundation analysis of Russia’s historiography;  Mr Putin dismisses “idiotic” Latvian and Estonian “territorial claims”(in Russian) also here
31.  Mr Putin rewrites the Yeltsin years (English version and in the original Russian)
34.  Lilia Shevtsova  explains how Anti-Westernism is the New National Idea
35. Mr Putin likens America to an old-fashioned colonist in English and in the original Russian
36. Mr Putin refers to America as 'Comrade Wolf' in English and in Russian
37. Thomas E. Ricks and Craig Whitlock, ‘Putin Hits U.S. Over Unilateral Approach: Rebuke Is Called Unusually Hostile’, Washington Post, 11 February 2007 Munich Conference on Security Policy (in English) Munich Conference on Security Policy (in Russian
Video of the Munich Conference on Security Policy
38. Russian mixed feelings about America reported in Novaya Gazeta
42.  Russian views on atheism and religious belief
43. “A church for Lubyanka” April 1, 2002 in the New Yorker
44. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor, Church questions "Western" concept of human rights 45. Los Angeles Times can be read here or on the paper’s archive website, (for a fee)
47. Surkov on Moscow as a “third Rome”
51. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2006 report on Russia (pdf)
54. Transcript of Mr Yuryev’s interview (in Russian) by Yevgenia Albats on Ekho Moskvy 
His November 24 article in Komsomolskaya Pravda
56. President Putin's Third Term By Reuben F. Johnson, The Weekly Standard, 8/14, 2007
57. Surkov (again) on Russian cultural consciousness 
59. Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Back to the Future

6 How Eastern Europe Sits on the Front Line of the New Cold War

2. Mário Nicolini explains 'Euroatlanticism'
9. Islam Karimov ranked number 8 in the world's worst dictator poll
19.  The Belarussian government in exile gets a rare mention in the international media: ‘Home thoughts from abroad’, The Economist, 20 December 2001. More on Belarus in this online column November 2006
26. 'Putin and Georgia Officials Intensify Rhetoric in Dispute' Washington Post, and Mr Putin compares the Georgian action to the policies of Stalin's KGB chief Lavrenti Beria
27.  Grigory Chkhartishvili's publishers offices raided by the police
30. Druzhba Shut Down - Europe Cut Off from Russian Oil,
'Russia halts oil deliveries to Germany' Spiegel Online,
'Merkel, EU's Barroso Condemn Russian Pipeline Shut-Off',
Spiegel Online and More on Russia shutting down Druzhba (in Russian)
31. Baltic Business News Newsletter
32. Robert L. Larsson, Russia’s Energy Policy: Security Dimensions and Russia’s Reliability as an Energy Supplier, FOI, Stockholm, 2006
34. Marc Champion 'Georgia incident deepens Russian rift', The Wall Street Journal, July 4th 2007 In Russian
38. Military Doctrine (in Russian) of April 21 2006
39.  Mr Putin’s on Russians abroad in his annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation April 3, 2001 Moscow (in English)
40. “Patrushev: Foreign secret services are preparing new ‘Coloured Revolutions’”.(In Russian) May 12, 2005 
42. The play was called “Adolf” and was written and performed by Pip Utton
43. It attracted this sort of criticism (in Russian) and this response from Mr Lang
44.  Although the entry has now been moved to one on “Astroturfing,” some traces on Wikipedia have survived . See also Disinformation” in The Economist August 3, 2006
and “Covering tracks,” (web only) in The Economist, August 3rd, 2006.
50. Rossiiskaya Gazeta in praise of Nashi
51. Here attacking the Estonian ambassador. Typical Russian slanted coverage of the Bronze Soldier here and a lucid response by Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation here
52. The full version of the doggerel poem in Russian is here
Putin promises more resources for the spooks here (in Russian only)
56.  An excellent Wired article about the cyberattack on Estonia 
58. The Spiegel cover story about mass migration and HRW on homophobia by the (former) Polish government
60. How Russia overshadows German politics

7 Pipeline Politics: The Threat and the Reality

1. Clifford Gaddy’s research on Putin’s plagiarism
2. Ariel Cohen on how to counter Russian foreign policy
3. Michael Fredholm’s “Gazprom in Crisis” (pdf)
5. The WOGR gas import table is here
6. A primer on EU-Russian energy relations is here and here
7. Russia’s disinclination to ratify the Energy Charter here (in Russian) with similar material here, here  and here
8. Agata Loskot-Strachota’s “Russian Gaas for Europe” is here (pdf) and Katinka Barysch’s 2007 pamphlet  here (pdf)
9. Paul Belkin’s pamphlet on Europe’s energy challenges is here
11. Nord Stream’s startlingly uninformative home page is here; the Cologne University “From Russia with Gas” paper is now here
12. The Nabucco home page is here
13. Congressman Lantos’s startling remarks are here
16. RFE/RL’s piece on “Is a gas war brewing” is here and a Russian article on the same subject here
17. Mr Sikorski now insists that he never compared the gas deal to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Clearly a Reuters journalist got the wrong impression in the story published here. The EU got cross, see here
18. Robert Larson’s piece on Nord Stream and Baltic security is here (p. 27) (pdf)
19. Andrew Mrozek’s piece is here
20. Kommersant’s commentary, previously referenced, is here
21. Vladimir Socor on Rosukrenergo here and in Zeyno Baran’s excellent congressional testimony here (pdf) and Taras Kuzio unpicks RosUkrEnergo here
24. The Times article on Gazprom’s private army is here and a Russian-language one here
Klaus Mangold’s piece on Russia is now here
28. A French government primer on the Weimar Triangle is here
29. A Russian report on Deripaska’s acquisition of Strabag (quoting Bloomberg) is here and a piece on General Motors (quoting Vedomosti) here
30. Putin and Schröder’s friendship here (in German, requires registration) and Yulia Latynina’s column on Putin and Merkel here (requires subscription)
32. Socor on growing problems with Nord Stream here
33. International Herald Tribune on Gazprom’s growing reach in Europe here
36. RIA Novosti on Bulgaria’s switch to South Stream (in Russian) here
37. Putin’s charm offensive in the Balkans here
38. Hungary’s stance on Nabucco here and (in Russian) here
39. Gazprom’s advance into Austria here (in Russian)
41. The International Herald Tribune sums up the Austria-Hungary-Russia energy story  here
43. A masterly exposition by Vladimir Milov of Russia’s underlying energy weakness is here (ppt)
44. The British legal specialist Alan Riley is a fascinating source of information about the legal and other weaknesses in Gazprom’s approach. One of many good papers is here (pdf)

Chapter 8 Sabre-Rattling or selling sabres

1. Warfare.ru is the best overall site on Russian military capabilities and developments
and an interesting commentary on the danger posed by the Shkval
2. The latest on the Russian nuclear arsenal is here
3. Homepage of the Russian arms export industry is here
4. President Hugo Chavez’s gushing remarks about Russia here
5. Stephen Blank on Missile Defence here and Times article on Putin telling the West to drop “silly” Atlantic solidarity here
7. Russian analysis of CFE treaty here (pdf)
8. Russian twitchiness about NATO on its borders here (in Russian)
10. Full text of CFE treaty here
11. Pavel Felgenhauer’s scathing attack on Russia’s CFE stance here
12. Rose Gotemoeller in Nezavismaya Gazeta here
13. Viktor Yasman on Kosovo here and Russia’s MFA here
16. Russian chestbanging here
17. Chavez breathes fire here (in Russian)
18. Dmitri Trenin on Russia and Israel here
19. Aleksei Malashenko on Russia and Islam here
21. Zavtra and Hamas have a love-in here
24. Russian-Chinese trade data here
25. World without the West (WWW) outlined here
26. A report on the SCO from mid-2007 here
27. Putin dismisses comparisons between the SCO and Warsaw Pact here
28. A characteristically incisive Piontkovsky piece here (no subscription required)

Chapter Nine How to win the New Cold War

3. Katinka Barysch’s excellent paper (pdf)
6. Classic moral equivalence between Bush and Putin

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