Albats, Yevgenia
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
Alexeyev, Ilya
Alexeyeva, Lyudmila
Alexiy II, Patriarch of All Russia
Alma-Ata
Altai
American University (Washington, DC)
Amu Darya river
Analytical Centre of the President of Russia
Andreotti, Giulio
Andreyeva, Nina
Andropov, Yury Vladimirovich
Anka, Paul
Anna (letter-writer)
Annan, Kofi
Anpilov, Viktor
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
anti-terrorist coalition
Antonov-Ovseyenko, Anton
Arab–Israeli conflict
Arab Spring (2010–11)
Arafat, Yasser
Arakcheyev, Alexey
Aral Sea
Arctic Ocean
Argentina
Argumenty i Fakty (newspaper)
Armenia
arms race
accelerating
halted/ending
interests vested in
new
unbridled
Aron, Leon
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
Association of Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Astafiev, Viktor P.
Atlanta, Georgia
see also Emory University
auctions
deposit
loans-for-shares
Australia
authoritarianism
alarming displays of
attempts to rehabilitate x
avoiding the slippery slope to
climate in society and politics fraught with
danger of fomenting
executive
full-blown
governments in Russia traditionally tend towards
how to save Russia from sliding into
mechanism needed to insure against
methods to resolve particular problems
MG opposed to moves towards
moderate
moves affecting state and public institutions opposed by MG
people have made clear they do not want to live under
politicians seem to be in great demand
potential for
preventing a slide into
probability of transition to
Putin has no intention of establishing
strengthening the structures and machinery of
tendencies towards
autocracy
Auzan, Alexander
Aven, Pyotr
Baburova, Nastya
Bahr, Egon
Baker, James
Baku
Balakovo
ballot-rigging
charter for
Ban Ki-moon
banking system
Baranovsky, Vladimir
Barcelona
Barnaul
Barvikha sanatorium
Bassey, Shirley
Bavaria
Neuschwanstein Castle
Wieskirche
see also Munich; Wildsteig
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
Beijing
Bekhtereva, Natalia
Belarus
see also Lukashenko; Minsk
Belgrade
Belo, Carlos Filipe Ximenes
Belomorsk
Belovezha Accords
Belozertsev, Sergey
Beltsy
Belykh, Vadim
Berezovsky, Boris
Beria, Lavrentiy
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy
Bertelsmann
Beslan tragedy (2004)
Bessmertnykh, Alexander
Bhutto, Benazir
Biermann, Wolf
billionaires
Bipartisan Commission on US Policy towards Russia
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Sea Fleet
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Bogomolov, Oleg
Bolshaya Politika (magazine)
Bolshevism
Boltyanskaya, Natella
Bonn
Hotel Petersberg
Villa Hammerschmidt
Bonner (Sakharov), Yelena
Borodin, Pavel Pavlovich
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnian Serbs
Boston
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Botswana
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Braithwaite, Rodric
Brandt, Willy
Brazil
growth of economic power
Brezhnev, Leonid
BRICS see Brazil; China; India; South Africa
Britain see United Kingdom
British-German Society
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Brundtland Commission (1987)
Brussels
see also EU
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bulgaria
Bundestag elections
Bunimovich, Yevgeny
Burbulis, Gennadiy
Burlatsky, Fedor
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
MG with Helmut Kohl and (Germany 2005)
Bush, George W.
first meeting between Putin and
Bush, Preston
Byelorussia see Belarus
Cabinet of Ministers
abusing the infinite patience of the Russian people
Cairo (Tahrir Square)
California
Fresno
Simi Valley
Stanford
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Canada
MG’s first trip to
see also Mulroney
Candide (Voltaire)
Card, Andrew
Carter, Jimmy
Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia
Caucasus
Russia is bound to
United States and
see also Armenia; Chechnya; Dagestan; Georgia; Transcaucasia
Central Bank
Central & Eastern Europe
democratic change
free elections
NATO and
Central Electoral Commission
see also Churov; Veshnyakov
Centre for the Preservation of Contemporary Documentation
Channel One Television
Charan Singh, Chaudhary
Charter of Paris see OSCE
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic
Chechnya
see also Dudaev; Grozny; Zavgaev
‘Chekist methods’
Chelyabinsk
chemical weapons
Chemical Weapons Convention (1993)
Cheney, Dick
Cherkizov, Andrey
Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich
Chernobyl disaster (1986)
Chernomyrdin, Viktor Stepanovich
Chernyaev, Anatoly
Chiang Kai-shek
Chicago
Chiesa, Giulietto
Chile
China
dire environmental pollution in many cities
economic power
fight against poverty and backwardness
mudslides
political importance
see also Beijing; Chiang; Chou; Deng; Hu; Jiang; Kuomintang; Qian; Shanghai; Sun; Taiwan; Xinhua; Zhao
Chirac, Jacques
Chou En-Lai ix
Chowdhury, Anwarul
Chubais, Anatoly
Churchill, Winston
Churov, Vladimir
Chuvashia
CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency)
Cinema House
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
establishing: dubious legality of
motive behind
far-reaching consequences for
future of
MG’s commitment ensured peaceful and orderly transition to
no effective institutions capable of controlling economic and political situation
nuclear weapons inherited from Soviet Union
organizing as ‘multi-structural community’
reforms in
Yeltsin, Belarus and Ukraine leaders collude to replace USSR with
Civil Dialogue Forum
civil rights
respected
systematic re-establishment of control over
civil society
active
attacking
building of
coalition with democratic forces of