Komsomol
Khodorkovsky (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Young Guard as (i)
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Kordonsky, Simon (i)
Koreans (i), (ii), (iii)
Korzhakov, Alexander (i)
Kosovo (i), (ii)
Kosygin, Alexei (i)
Kovalchuk, Yury (i), (ii)
KPRF see Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Kramarev, Arkady (i), (ii), (iii)
Krasnodar (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Krasnoyarsk (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Krause, Charles (i), (ii), (iii)
Kremlin (i), (ii), (iii)
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Kudrin, Alexey
‘Citizens Initiative’ (i)
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‘island of stability’ (i)
joins Putin (i), (ii)
Khodorkovsky’s arrest (i), (ii)
liberal group (i)
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Kuritsina, Sveta (i)
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Kushchevskaya (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Kyrgyzstan (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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Land Privatization Bill (i), (ii)
Latynina, Yulia (i)
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LDPR (i), (ii)
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Lebedev, Alexander (i), (ii)
Lee Kuan Yew (i), (ii)
legal nihilism (i), (ii)
Lehman Brothers (i)
Lenin
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Leningrad (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); see also St Petersburg
Leningrad State University (i)
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Levis (i), (ii)
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attitude to new middle class (i)
Khodorkovsky (i), (ii)
Navalny on (i)
Olga Khrystanovskaya (i)
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Limonov (Emanuel Carrère) (i)
Limonov, Eduard (i), (ii)
Literaturnaya Gazeta (i)
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Little Britain (i)
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Lokomotiv hockey team (i), (ii)
London
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Magadan (i), (ii)
Magnitogorsk (i)
Magnitsky, Sergei (i), (ii)
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Man with a Ruble (i)
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Ukraine (i), (ii)
Yeltsin starts to create (i)
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Mandarin Chinese (i), (ii), (iii); see also China
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Markov, Sergey
government mixed message (i)
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Ukraine (i), (ii)
youth groups (i)
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Marseille (i)
Marx, Karl (i), (ii)
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Masterskaya (i), (ii), (iii)
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir (i), (ii)
Mayfair (i), (ii)
MC Hammer (i)
Media-Most (i), (ii)
Medvedeva, Dmitry (i)
background (i)
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Moscow chatter about (i)
Navalny (i)
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Medvedev, Svetlana (i)
Membership Action Plans (NATO) (i); see also NATO
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Mexico (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Mezhuev, Boris
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MI6 (i)
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Milov, Vladimir
Caucasus, an opinion (i)
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Roizman (i)
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Mironov, Andrei (i)
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Moscow (i), (ii)
billionaires (i), (ii)
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chatter about Medvedev (i)
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expensive city, an (i)
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GDP (i), (ii)
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middle class (i), (ii)
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