Lugar, Richard
Lugovoi, Andrei
Lunkin, Aleksandr
Luzhkov, Yuri
Lviv
Lysenko, Trofim
MacArthur, Douglas
McCain, John
McDaniel, Tim
MacKay, Peter
Mackinder, Halford
Magic Christian, The (Southern)
Magnitsky, Sergei
Man Without a Face, The (Gessen)
Mao Zedong
March West doctrine
Mariinsky Canals
Markov, Georgi
Marxism
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Medvedev, Dmitri
Arctic and
comparisons between Putin and
and demonstrations against Putin
on economic reform
Internet and
Kaliningrad and
and Russia without Putin
Menatep Bank
Mendeleev Ridge
Meri, Lennart
Merkel, Angela
Mezhuev, V. M.
Mickiewicz, Adam
middle class
Mihailov, Sergei
Minsk agreements
Mitrokhnin, Vasily
MMM
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Mongols, Mongol Horde
Moscow
and campaign against dissent
changing street names in
and coup against Gorbachev
demonstrations and violence in
feared Russian collapse and
iconoclasm and
Internet and
KGB in
Khodorkovsky and
mayoral elections in
in myth and history
oil and
Olympic Games in
organized crime in
political assassinations and
Putin’s FSB directorship and
Putin’s postings in
Russian-Chechen wars and
Russian gold depository in
Soviet high-rises in
and transition from Soviet Union to Russian Federation
Ukraine and
U.S. embassy in
World War II and
Moscow Times, The
Murder in Samarkand (Murray)
Murmansk
Murray, Craig
mutual assured destruction (MAD)
nanotechnology
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Narva
Naryshkin, Sergei
National Geographic
National Guard, Russian:
creation of
as Putin’s personal guard
Russian internal enemies and
Russian Syrian incursion and
Navalny, Alexei
Internet and
Russian internal enemies and
and Russia without Putin
Nazarbayev, Nursultan
Nemtsov, Boris
Nerchinsk, Treaty of
New Economic Policy (NEP)
New Silk Road
New Year’s
New York Times, The
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia
Nikitin, Alexander
9/11
Nixon, Richard
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Arctic and
Charter of
expansionism of
Kaliningrad and
KGB illegals and
reuniting Germany and
Russian-Chechen wars and
and Russian threat to West
Soviet submarine transfers and
Ukraine and
Northern Sea Route (NSR)
Northwest Passage
Norway
nuclear weapons, reactors, and waste
and Arctic
and China
and floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs)
and Kaliningrad
and Kazakhstan
and KGB
and NATO expansionism
and Russia without Putin
and Sakharov
and stealing atomic secrets
and Sudden Nuclear Missile Attack (SNMA)
and Ukraine
and U.S.-Soviet relations
Nuremburg trials
Obama, Barack
oil
Arctic and
Chechnya and
China and
comparisons between gas and
Crimea and
exploration for
in history
Kazakhstan and
Khodorkovsky and
nano project and
price of
privatizing of
Putin’s failures and
Putin’s reelection and
Russia and
Soviet Union and
spills of
oligarchs
Berezovsky and
and criticisms of Putin
Khodorkovsky and
and Loans for Shares
presidential elections and
Putin’s relationship with
and Russia without Putin
and threats to Putin’s power
Oligarchs, The (Hoffman)
Olympic Games
OMON
O’Reilly, Dave
Oreshkin, Dmitri
Orlov, Count Alexei
ORT (TV Channel 1)
Owen, Sir Robert
paganism
Pakistan
Panama Papers
Panetta, Leon
perestroika
Pereyaslav
Petofi, Sandor
Petrograd
see also Leningrad
Petrostate (Goldman)
Philosophical Letters (Chaadayev)
“Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Feynman)
Poland
gas and
Kaliningrad and
national poet of
Ukraine and
Politkovskaya, Anna
Polo, Marco
Potsdam Agreement
Prague Spring
Pribylovsky, Vladimir
Prokhanov, Alexander
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Proton rocket crash
Pushkin, Alexander
Pussy Riot
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich:
accused of pedophilia
alcohol consumed by
aliases of
alleged corruption of
ambitions of
authoritarianism of
awards and honors of
baptism of
birth of
boxing and judo of
bribe refused by
childhood and adolescence of
children of
on collaborators and snitches
communal apartment life of
counterintelligence work of
criminal investigation of
criticisms of
cyberpolitics and
death of
demeanor of
demonstrations against
disappearances of
on economic diversity
education and training of
electoral demographics of
enemies and rivals of
failures of
finances of
foreign intelligence and relations work of
on future
German language studies of
hybrid warfare of
illegal agent screening of
injuries of
inner circle of
as insulting
leadership skills of
lion tamer role of
as Little Volodya
loyalty and trust important to
marriage and married life of
media seizure of
misreading of
mission of
oath of office taken by
order and control important to
in outing himself
paranoia of
parents of
personal guard of
personal nightmare scenario of
physical appearance of
political assassinations and
popularity of
power and authority of
predicting behavior of
presidency handed to
presidential campaigns of
presidential inaugurations of
prime minister post offered to
reading of
on recentralization
relations between authoritarian leaders and
rise to power of
Russia without
sense of danger of
speeches of
statism of
street fighting of
successors to
on television
undercover work of
weight gain of
working class background of
worldview and geopolitics of
Putina, Lyudmila