4.“Toward the Great Ocean, or the New Globalization of Russia,” Valdai Discussion Club Analytical Report, July 2012, 12, http://vid-1.rian.ru/ig/valdai/Toward_great_ocean_eng_short.pdf.
5.Dmitri Trenin, “The End of the EU-Russian Relationship as You Know It,” Valdai Discussion Club, January 8, 2013, http://valdaiclub.com/europe/53400.html.
6.Author’s conversations, Moscow, Russia, March 2013.
7.“Disagreement on Missile Defense may Tell on Russia-NATO Cooperation in Other Areas—Ambassador,” Golos Rosii[Voice of Russia Radio], February 9, 2013, http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_09/Disagreement-on-missile-defencemay-tell-on-Russia-NATO-cooperation-in-other-areas-Ambassador/.
8.See, for example, “Moscow Unimpressed by Changes to US Missile Defense Plans,” RIA-Novosti, March 18, 2013, http://en.ria.ru/world/20130318/180087109.html.
9.See, for example, Finn Maigaard, “A New Direction for EU-Russia Relations?” Foreign Policy Association, February 8, 2012, http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/02/08/direction-eu-russian-relations/.
10.“Toward the Great Ocean, or the New Globalization of Russia,” Valdai Discussion Club Analytical Report, July 2012, 23, http://vid-1.rian.ru/ig/valdai/Toward_great_ocean_eng_short.pdf.
11.Ibid., 26.
12.Sergei Karaganov, “Russia’s Asia Strategy,” Russia in Global Affairs, July 2, 2011, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/pubcol/Russias-Asian-Strategy-15254.
13.Author’s conversations, Moscow, Russia, March 12, 2013.
14.John K. Yi, “Russia and South Korea: Much Ado about Something,” International Policy Digest, October 26, 2011, http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2011/10/26/russia-and-south-korea-much-ado-about-something/.
15.David Herszenhorn, “Russia and Japan in Agreement on Natural Gas Deal,” New York Times, September 8, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/world/europe/russia-and-japan-move-forward-on-natural-gas-deal.html?_r=0.
16.“Myanmar’s Nuclear Ambitions: Secrets Will Out,” Economist, June 10, 2010, http://www.economist.com/node/16321694.
17.Timofei Bordachev and Oleg Barabanov, “Siberia and the Far East as a Path to Russian Modernization,” Valdai Discussion Club, January 23, 2013, http://valdaiclub.com/economy/53980.html.
18.Vladimir Petrovsky, “Russia and ASEAN: 15 Years as Dialogue Partners,” Valdai Discussion Club, July 20, 2011, http://valdaiclub.com/asia/28620.html.
19.Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov to the IISS Shangri-la Conference, Singapore, June 2011, www.iiss.org/conferences/the-shangri-ladialogue/shangri-la-dialogue-2011/speeches/sixth-plenary-session/sergei-ivanov/.
20.Dmitry Gorenberg, “The Southern Kuril Islands Dispute,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, no. 226 (September 2012): http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pepm_226_Gorenburg_Sept2012.pdf; see also, “INFOGRAPHIC: History of the Kuril Islands Dispute,” RIA-Novosti, 2012, http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20120907/175820440.html.
21.Ibid.
22.“Russia’s Kuril Islands to Become Investment Heaven,” Golos Rosii[Voice of Russia Radio], May 12, 2012, http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_05_12/74537891/.
23.“China, Russia Call for Efforts in Asia-Pacific Security,” Xinhua (Beijing), September 28, 2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/28/content_11361116.htm.
24.Stephen Blank, “A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia,” Global Asia, June 2012, http://www.globalasia.org/V7N2_Summer_2012/Stephen_Blank.html.
25.“Russia-China Oil Pipeline Opens,” BBC, January 1, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12103865; “China-Russia Oil Pipeline Records 30 Million Tonnes in Delivery,” Xinhua, January 2, 2013, http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/753302.shtml.
26.“China Wants All Oil from Russia’s ESPO Pipeline,” RIA Novosti, February 2012, http://en.rian.ru/business/20120215/171326659.html.
27.Blank, “A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia,” Global Asia, June 2012, http://www.globalasia.org/V7N2_Summer_2012/Stephen_Blank.html.
28.Author’s conversations, Moscow, Russia, March 2013.
CHAPTER NINE
1.“Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin: ‘We Have to Take a Chance with More Democracy,’” Der Spiegel(Hamburg), January 23, 2013, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-putin-ally-alexei-kudrin-on-democracy-in-russia-a-878873.html.
2.Alexandr Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999).
3.As cited in Charles Clover, “Will the Russian Bear Roar Again?” Financial Times, December 2, 2000.
4.Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999), 190.
5.Clover, “Will the Russian Bear Roar Again?” Financial Times, December 2, 2000.
6.As cited in “USSR Reborn,” Daily Mail(London), October 5, 2011.
7.Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999), 9.
8.As cited in Herman Pirchner Jr., Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.
9.Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, “Biographia [Biography],” http://oborona.gov.ru/pages/315/.
10.“Putin picks Dmitry Rogozin, a leading nationalist, to be NATO envoy,” International Herald Tribune, January 10, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/europe/10iht-russia.4.9135955.html.
11.Military-industrial commission of the Russian Federation, “Main Page,” http://oborona.gov.ru/.
12.Author’s interviews, Moscow, Russia, March 2013.
13.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Russian Question(New York: Farrar, 1995).
14.Ibid.
15.Pirchner, Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.
16.As cited in Igor Torbakov, “Russian Policymakers Air Notion of ‘Liberal Empire’ in Caucasus, Central Asia,” Eurasianet, October 26, 2003, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav102703.shtml.
17.As cited in Vadim Dubnov: “The Russia We Will Never Lose; Fighting Imaginary Separatism Is an Extremely Costly Undertaking,” gazeta.ru, February 10, 2012.
18.“Russians Ponder Unification with Ukraine, Belarus,” Angus Reid Global Monitor, October 5, 2005, http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/15267/russians_ponder_unification_with_ukraine_belarus/.
19.Ibid.
20. On The Admission to the Russian Federation and the Formation Within the Russian Federation of a New Subject, 2001, as translated and reprinted in Pirchner, Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.
21.Ibid.
22.Ibid.
23.Denis Trifonov, “‘Ivanov Doctrine’ Reflects Moscow’s Growing Confidence in the CIS and Beyond,” Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, November 19, 2003, http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/1657.