‘and the Arctic 11, 12
Russian seizure of the Arctic Sunrise 9, 10
Grossman, Vasily 211, 212
Grushin bard song festival 76
Grybauskaitė, Dalia 20
Gudkov, Dmitry 108, 109, 232
Guevara, Che 23
GULAGS 208, 210, 211, 213, 235
guns, education in the use of 152–3
Guriyev, Sergei 52
Gurtskaya, Diana 167
Habermas, Jürgen 105
hackers 91
Hegel, G.W.F. xi
Herzen, Alexander 252
Himmler, Heinrich 136
historical revisionism 179–82
Hitler, Adolf 97, 220
Hobbes, Thomas 91
Holocaust 137, 210, 242
homophobia 133
anti-gay laws ix, x, 13, 82, 121–2, 135, 144
test for 135–7
homosexuality
and complexity management 132–3
same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17
human rights 13
and migrants 26
Human Rights Commissioner 148
Hungary 52
Soviet invasion of 77
Huntington, Samuel 16
hybrid war ix, 89–90, 173
and football thugs 102–4
special operations 171–5
in Syria 90, 91, 92, 104
in Ukraine 21–5, 104
hygiene policy 119–22
Iampolski, Mikhail 222, 227
Iannucci, Armando 215, 216, 217
Icarus (film) 170
Ilyin, Ivan 14
‘I’m not afraid to speak out’ (yaNyeboyusSkazat) flash mob 141–2, 147, 148, 163, 240
immigration, anti-immigration mood in Russia 133–4
imperialism ix, 28–9
India 74, 109
industrialization 35, 36
infantilism of Russian consciousness 17–19
information ‘bombs’ 155
Ingham, Bernard 88
innovation culture 50–1
International Memorial 47
International Space Station (ISS) 94
Internet 45, 49, 50, 52, 79
cyberattacks 92
digital hygiene 120
hackers 91
and imaginary threats 83, 84
League for a Safe Internet 82–3
and Russian sovereignty 56
and Russian special operations 173
trolls 91
war of the avatars 112–16
‘invader’s syndrome’ 37
‘Invader’ video 34–5
Iran 16, 41, 93
and Russian sovereignty 55
Iraq 21, 23, 25, 39, 40
ISIS (Islamic State) 20, 21, 23, 24, 33, 41, 42, 46
and humanitarian aid 156
and IT 50, 52
Islamists 20, 21, 23, 49
IT (information technology) 48–52
innovation culture 50–1
military planning 78
network neutrality 49–50
Silicon Valley 131–2
and the Soviet Union 174–5
Ivan the Terrible viii–ix, 56, 62, 71, 212, 221, 245–6
Ivan’s Childhood (film) 200
Japan 98
Jerusalem 64
Jews 86, 121, 137, 185, 221
antisemitism 135, 137
the Holocaust 242
‘Jihadi John’ 20, 24
A Just Russia (political party) 25
Kabaeva, Alina 123, 125
Kachalov, Vasily 71–2
Kadyrov, Ramzan 24, 70
Kakhovsky, Pyotr 251
Kalatozov, Mikhail 200
Kaldor, Mary 23, 24
Kalinin, Mikhail 204
Kant, Immanuel 91
Kantorowicz, Ernst, The King’s Two Bodies 124
Karachinsky, Antoly 48
Karaganov, Sergei 222–3
Karagodin, Denis 238, 240, 241, 242
Karagodin, Stepan Ivanovich 238
Karajan, Herbert von 97
Karamzin, Nikolai 246
Kaspersky, Eugene 48, 51
Kaspersky Lab 48, 49
Kaspersky, Natalya 48
Kazakhstan 64
Kennedy, John F. 86
Kennedy, Paul 36
Khakassia, fire in 6
khalyava 187
Khinshtein, Alexander 241
Khlebnikov, Paul 231
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 55, 188, 252
Kholmanskikh, Igor 78
Kholodov, Dmitry 231
Khrushchev, Nikita 51, 180–1, 215, 223, 246
de-Stalinization programme 210, 239
memorial to 191
and Victory Day 200
Khrustalyov, My Car! (film) 216
Khvat, Alexander 239
Kiev, Maidan Square demonstrations 84, 87, 195–6, 224, 226
Kildyushov, Oleg 106
King, Stephen 44
Kipling, Rudyard 27, 35, 36–7
Kirill, Patriarch 70
Kiselyov, Dmitry 8, 14, 90, 155, 163
Kjellén, Rudolf 30
Klimov, Elem 198
Klintsevich, Franz 44
Klyuchevsky, Vasily 246
Kolesnik, Vladimir 234
Komsomol 19
Kordonsky, Simon 82
Korolev, Sergei 74
Kosovo war 39, 40, 42, 223
Kozintsev, Grigory 211
Krasner, Stephen 54, 56, 57
Kremlin, the 56, 61–4
Krichman, Mikhail 162
Kuivashev, Yevgeny 243
Kukly (television series) 216
Kurile Islands 95
Kurilenko, Olga 214
Kursk, Battle of (1943) 77
Kuszyńska, Monika 167
Kuznetsova, Anna 146–7, 148
Kyrgyzstan 230
language wars 108–11
Latin America 22–3, 37
Latynina, Yulia 27
Le Pen, Marine 92
Lebedev, Igor 102
Lenin, V.I. 216, 234
Mausoleum 61, 62, 74, 96
Leningrad, siege of 236
Leshchenko, Pyotr 204
Leviathan (film) 161, 163, 164
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 18, 25, 224
Libya 89, 93
Likhachev, Dmitry 211
linguistic nationalism 108–11
Listyev, Vladislav 231
Lithuania 20
Little Zaches: The Story of Putin from Beginning to End 216
Litvinenko, Alexander 231
Livanov, Dmitry 148
Lockerbie bombing 89
Lotman, Yuri, Culture and Explosion 99
Loveless (film) 161–4
Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) 21–5, 172, 196, 227
Lutsik, Pyotr 22
Lutsky, Alexander Nikolaevich 249–51, 252–5
McCain, John 32
McKenzie, Scott 132
McLaren Report 170, 173
Magnitsky, Sergie 231, 239
Makhachov, Gaji 65
Makhno, Nestor 22
Maksakov, Vladimir 21–2
Malaya Zemlya 201
Malenkov, Georgy 199, 215
Malofeev, Konstantin 50, 82
Mamardashvili, Merab 18–19
Mamleyev, Yury 211
Mandelstam, Nadezhda 211
Mandelstam, Osip 61–2
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 69, 124
Markin, Vladimir 102
Martynov, Kirill 246
Massachusetts Institute of Technology see MIT
Mayakovsky, Vladimir 8
Mearsheimer, John 30
media, Russian media and the war in Syria 41
Medinsky, Vladimir 44, 243, 245
Medvedev, Dmitry 63, 133, 186, 243
men, and the culture of power and violence 142–4, 145
Merkel, Angela 82
MeToo movement 141
Mexico 98
MH17 (Malaysian airliner), shooting down of viii, xi, 24, 89, 90, 91, 114, 115, 163, 171, 172, 174, 242
Middle Ages, and the body of the sovereign 124, 126
migrants 26–9, 91, 92
migration crisis 91
Mikhalkov, Nikita 243, 245, 248
Mikoyan, Anastas 158
military-industrial complex 50, 51
and missile parades 75
military-patriotic hysteria 76–7
Milk, Harvey 132
Milonov, Vitaly 13, 15, 136, 164
Minchenko, Yevgeny 71
The Mirage of Enchanting Happiness (film) 251–2
Miss Universe contest 139