AIDS crisis and, 10, 14, 21
Asia and, 94–101
China and, 6, 11–12
demographics of, 11, 13–20, 24–25
Duma and, 36
economy of, 25
Far East of, 6, 53–65
implosion of, 3, 6, 9, 12, 115–26
Iran and, 7
migration from, 22–23, 25–26
Muslims and, 11, 27–39, 81–92, 114
post-Soviet, 10, 21, 28, 104
Putin and, 8–9, 22, 35, 38, 44, 53, 67–80, 103
radical Islam and, 2
Soviet Union and, 7–8, 22, 42, 108
Stalin and, 9
United States and, 10, 12
Yeltsin and, 8
wars and, 42–52
Russian Federation, the, 42, 71, 95, 107, 109–10, 114, 117. See alsoRussia
Arctic and, 79, 165–84
China and, 59
HIV/AIDS and, 21
Islamic radicalism in, 42, 91
Muslims in, 30, 39, 82
national security strategy, 185–240
natural gas and, 76
NGOs active in, 70
non-Slavs within, 33
population of, 10, 14, 20, 29, 125
territory of, 6, 122
upheaval of, 10, 12
United States and, 119–20
Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, 49
Russian Islamic University, 46
Russian Orthodox Church, the (Russian Orthodoxy), 28, 73–75, 109–10, 123
Russian Question, The, 107
Russian Supreme Court, 48
Russkiyemovement, 34
S
S-400 air defense system, 65
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 112–13
Sakhalin Island (Sakhalin), 60, 97, 99
Saudi Arabia, 18, 30, 75
Seoul, 97, 117
separatism, separatist, 5, 42, 49, 85, 124, 186, 192, 208
September 1999
bombings, 44
Serdyukov, Anatoly, 72
shadow economy, 32
Shah, Apoorva, 18
shale gas, 77
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), 7, 62
Shangri-La, 98
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 112
Shi’a, 51, 91, 123. See alsoIslam
Shui-bian, Chen, 62
Siberia, 48, 54, 65, 96, 100–1, 219
“sick man of Europe,” 13
siloviki, 82
Singapore, 98
Sino-Russian, 55, 61, 63, 65
Slavic, Slavs, 5–6, 28–29, 32–33, 52, 106–7, 109, 114, 124
Sochi, 45
softwood lumber, 60
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 107, 123
Southern District, 32
“southern rim,” 85
South Korea, 94, 97, 117
South Ossetia, 112–13
SOVA, 34
Soviet Academy of Sciences, 16
Soviet Union, the, 6–7, 9, 12, 16–17, 20, 26, 28, 30, 42, 49, 52, 82, 84, 88, 99, 106, 108, 112, 121, 124–25
Spartak, 33
Stalin, Joseph, 9, 22, 28, 125
Stevastopol, 111
Steyn, Mark, 15, 125
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 87
St. Petersburg University, 103
strategic culture, 14
Strategy 2020, 64
Sufi, 45
Suleymanov, Rais, 49
Sunni, 91–92, 123. See alsoIslam
Sviridov, Yegor, 33
Syria, 7, 88–89, 91, 96
T
Taiwan, 61–62
Taiwan Strait, 62
Tanzania, 91
Tartus, 88
Tatar Islam, 47, 52. See alsoIslam
Tatarstan, 32, 46–49, 51, 53
Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, 47
Tbilisi, 113. See alsoBaku-Tbilisi Caspian oil route
Tehran, 84–85
Third Reich, 125
Tokyo, 99–100
Tonga, 17
“total fertility rate” (TFR), 14–16
Trans-Baikal regions, 60
Transdniester region, 106
Treaty of Aigun, 55
Treaty on Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation (Treaty on Friendship and Good Neighborliness), 55, 109
Treaty of Nerchinsk, 55
Treaty of Peking, 55
Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 1–2
Tsarnaev, Tamerlan, 1–2
Tulip Revolution, 37
Tunis, 90
Tunisia, 89
Turkey, 15, 30
Turkmenistan, 15
Tuvalu, 17
“twenty-first century nuclear arsenal,” 8
U
Ufa, 49
Ukraine, 6, 21, 37, 76, 88, 106, 108, 110–11, 114, 209. See alsoOdessa-Brody pipeline
Umarov, Doku, 47
umma, 38
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 2, 10, 15–17, 19, 24, 28, 42, 73, 75, 82, 88, 99, 107–8, 123, 125, 166
United Nations (UN), 29, 62, 83, 113, 124, 194, 233–34
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 79
United Nations Development Programme, 32
United Nations Security Council, 124, 194
United Russia, 36–37, 68–69, 72
United States, the, 3, 9, 30, 194
allies in the West of, 12
“Arctic Five” nation of, 78
Asia-Pacific and, 94, 124
China and, 61–62
Cold War and, 17
cooperation with Russia and, 118–19, 197, 234
economy of, 24
Europe and, 95
Georgia and, 112
immigrants in, 33
Magnitsky and, 119
migrant labor force of, 33
Moscow and, 6
NATO and, 7, 61, 87
Russia’s implosion and, 12
Russia’s “main enemy” as, 10, 105
shale gas and, 77
“total fertility rate” of, 15
Western powers and, 6, 110
United States Congress, 117, 119
Unity Party, 68
Ural Mountains, 11
U.S. Census Bureau, 15
U.S. Department of Energy, 76
U.S. Geological Survey, 78
USS Abraham Lincoln, 44
Ustinov, Mark, 33
V
Valdai Discussion Club, 94, 96
Valentine’s Day, 24
Velikhov, Yevgeny, 86
Verkhovsky, Alexander, 34
Viagra, 24
Vishnevsky, Anatoly, 15–16
Vladivostok, 97
Volga region, 28–29, 47, 116
Volgodonsk, 44
“Vostok-2010,” 65
W
Wahhabis, Wahhabism, 46–47, 49
Walking Together, 35
War on Terror, 42, 116
Washington, D.C., 6, 10, 12, 14, 17, 29, 76, 116–17, 119–20, 125
West, the, 2, 6, 8–10, 12–14, 18–20, 68, 81, 87–88, 90, 95, 106, 116, 120, 124–26
We Will Reclaim Russia for Ourselves, 106
White House, the, 96, 118–19
“wild east,” 8
World War I (First World War), 13
World War II (Second World War), 99, 125
X
xenophobes, xenophobia, 11, 33, 35, 74, 123, 192
Y
“Yabloko,” 86
Yakupov, Valiulla, 48
Yanukovych, Viktor, 111
Yellow Sea, 62
Yeltsin, Boris, 8, 35–36, 61, 70–71, 88
Yeltsin era, 8, 36
Yemen, 18
Yevloyev, Magomed, 41
Young Guard, the, 35
“youth bulge,” 16
Yugoslavia, 123
Yukos, 77
Yushchenko, Viktor, 111
Z
Zemin, Jiang, 55, 61
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir, 34
Zimbabwe, 14
Zubarevich, Natalia, 58