countries of, 42
“internal abroad” and, 50
migrants from, 33, 35
“near abroad” and, 7, 33
NGOs in, 46, 87
Russian military in, 50
threats from Moscow and, 6
violence in, 35
war in, 44
Caucasus Emirate, 41, 45, 47
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 29, 49, 76
Central Asia, 62, 76, 85, 108, 193
AIDS-related deaths in, 21
anti-Western partnership in, 62, 196
independence movements in, 42
majority-Muslim republics of, 82
migrants from, 35, 123
NATO and, 87
“near abroad” and, 7, 33
U.S. and allied activity in, 85
centralization, 36, 38
Chechen, Chechnya, 42, 44, 50.
See alsoFirst Chechen War
Islamist movement, 43
Muslims, 28
parliament, 45
Tsnarnaev brothers, 1
Chelyabinsk, 59
Christ the Savior Cathedral, 74
Chubais, Anatoly, 108
Churchill, Winston, 125
Civic Chamber, 35, 86, 236
Clinton administration, 88
Clinton, Hillary, 115
Coalition, 84–85, 116
Cohen, Ariel, 52
Cold War, 7, 10, 17, 19–20, 22, 28, 61–62, 80, 82
Collective Security Treaty Organization, 7
“color revolutions,” 37, 70, 87
communism, Communist, 17, 19, 24, 58, 73
Crimean Muslims, 28
Cyprus, 95
czars, 9
Czech Republic, 117
D
Dagestan, 29, 31–32, 43–46
Damascus, 7, 88–89
Day of Married Love and Family Happiness, 24
death rates, 18, 214
Demographic Yearbook, 19
demography, 14, 16, 18, 24
Denmark, 78–79
depopulation, 6, 14, 121
Der Spiegel, 45, 103
derzhavnost, 9, 34
Dima Yakovlev Law, 119
divorce rate, 19
Domodedovo, 41, 50
Dudayev, Dzokhar, 43
Dugin, Alexandr, 104–6, 108
Duma Defense Committee, 86
Duma (State Duma), 24, 36, 61, 69, 72–73, 106–7
E
Eastern Command, 65
Eberstadt, Nicholas, 18
Economic and Security Review Commission, 61
Egypt, 90–91
electromagnetic pulse weapons, 8
Eniler mosque, 46
Eurasia, 76, 85, 105–6, 123, 184
“Eurasia Party,” 105
“Euro-Islam,” 47
European Phased Adaptive Approach, 96, 118
European Union, the (EU), 18, 25, 27, 95, 112, 196
“Evil Empire,” the, 9, 42
F
Faizov, Ildus, 48
Far East, 6, 53–65, 96–98, 100–1, 121–22, 124, 209, 219
Far Right, 33–35
“federal center,” 38, 60
federalism, 36, 38
“Federal Targeted Program,” 60
Federation Council, the, 37
fertility rates, 14–15, 29 Financial Times, 106
First Chechen War, 43–44. See alsoChechen, Chechnya
Florida, 73
“foreign agent law,” 70
Foundations of Russian Federation Policy in the Arctic until 2020 and Beyond, The, 79, 165–84. See alsoRussia
FSB, the, 44, 176
G
Gaddafi, Muammar, 90
Gaynutdin, Ravil, 27–28
Gazovaya Ulitsa, 46–47
Gazprom, 80, 97
geopolitics, 14, 104–5
Georgia, 7, 42, 96, 111–14, 209
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, 112
Ghana, 91
“global commons,” 79, 165
Global Financial Integrity (GFI), 72
“global zero,” 9
Goble, Paul, 30
Golts, Alexander, 65
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 17
“Great Patriotic War,” 125
Greece, 95
Gref, German, 77
gross domestic product (GDP), 25, 72, 214, 240
H
Hagel, Chuck, 118
Hahn, Gordon, 31, 38, 49
hajj, 30
Hamas, 83
Heilongjiang province, 54
Heritage Foundation, the, 52
Higher School of Economics, 33
Hitler, Adolf, 125
HIV/AIDS, 20–21. See alsoAIDS
Hizb-ut Tahrir (HuT), 48
Hoffer, Eric, 75
Huntington, Samuel, 110
Hussein, Saddam, 82, 84
hydrocarbons, 60, 79, 168, 174
I
Independent Institute for Social Policy, 50
Indian Ocean, 93
Indonesia, 18
Ingush, Ingushetia, 28–29, 31–32, 41, 44
Institute of Demography, Migration, and Regional Development, 18
Institute for Scientific Information, 16
“intellectual war,” 50
Interfax, 77
Interior Ministry, 45
“internal abroad,” 50
International AIDS Society, 21
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 23
International Space Station, 118
Iran
ballistic missile threats and, 95
dictatorship in, xii
nuclear ambitions and, 7, 84–87
“orthodox Iran,” 73, 75
Russian alliance with, 105
Shi’a Muslim state of, 91
Iraq, 82, 84–85, 193
Ishayev, Victor, 64
Islam, xii, 47, 75, 82, 91–92, 124. See alsoShi’a; Sunni; Tatar Islam
Afghanistan and, 117
Caucasus Emirate and, 41
Chechnya and, 43–44
North Caucasus and, 122
profession of, 27–28
radical, xi, 2, 11, 38–39, 42, 45–46, 48–52
Russia and, 28, 30–31
Tatarstan and, 123
Islamic fundamentalism, 47
Islamic Republic of Iran, 85–86, 88, 94
“Islamic state,” 82
Islamism, 45, 51–52
Istanbul, 30, 87
Ittifak, 48
“Ivanov Doctrine,” 109
Ivanov, Sergei, 98, 109
J
Japan, 15, 53, 94, 97, 99–100, 105
Jewish Autonomous Region, 54, 58
jihad, 43, 82
jihadi, jihadism, jihadist, 6, 38, 44, 47
Jintao, Hu, 63
Jordan, 43–44, 87
Judaism, 75
Justice Ministry, 70
K
Kabardino-Balkaria, 31–32
Kaliningrad, 106
Karachaevo-Cherkessia, 32
Karaganov, Sergei, 64, 97
Kasparov, Garry, 74
Kazakhstan, 18, 30, 106, 114, 209
Kazan, 46, 48
KGB, 82, 104
Khabarovsk, 54, 58, 65
Khakimov, Rafael, 47
Khamitov, Rustem, 49
Khasavyurt, 43
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 77
Kiev, 110–11
Kirill II, 73
Klepach, Andrey, 25
Kogas, 97
Kokoshin, Andrei, 86
komunalki, 19
Korea, Koreans, 53
Kozyrev, Andrei, 83
Krasnoyarsk, 59
Kremlin, the, 22, 26, 28, 35, 42, 45–46, 50, 54, 59–60, 69–76, 82, 91, 94, 103, 106–7
Arctic and, 78
Asia and, 99–100, 121–22
Belarus and, 108–9
centralization and, 36, 38
Chechnya and, 51, 83
counterterrorism and, 37, 44, 49, 52, 123
demographics and, 15, 23–24, 125–26
energy sector and, 77
Far East and, 64–65, 97
Far Right’s ascendance and, 34
geopolitical posturing of, 10