Pivovarov, Andrei
Politkovskaya, Anna
polonium
Potemkin villages
Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests
Prigozhin, Yevgeny (Putin’s Cook)
Primakov, Yevgeny
Proekt
protests
Pushkin, Alexander
Pussy Riot
Putin, Katerina
Putin, Vladimir
Acting President (1999)
anti-Americanism
anti-corruption meetings (2003)
anti-Westernism
‘barbeque meeting’ (May, 2000)
Black Sea palace
character
corruption
corruption meetings (2003)
empire-building
head of the FSB
immunity from prosecution
KGB career
meeting with top executives (July, 2000)
Munich Conference speech
New Russian Idea, The
as ‘old man in his bunker’
one-man state
‘On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians’
opposition suppressed
patronage
personality
personality cult
personal wealth
playing-off groups against each other
popularity
power, hold on
President (2000)
Russia at the Turn of the Millennium (2000)
St Petersburg city government official
sanctions battle (2021)
seeking office beyond, 2024
Severnaya Neft deal (2003)
support for authoritarian rulers
xenophobia
QAnon
Radchenko, Kirill
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Rainsford, Sarah
Raksha, Alexei
Rastorguyev, Alexander
Ratnikov, Boris
Reagan, Ronald
reiderstvo (corporate raiding)
Research Institute for Fertilisers and Insecto-Fungicides
Roizman, Yevgeny
Roldugin, Sergei
Rosgvardiya
Roskomnadzor
Rosneft
Rosstat
Rotenberg, Arkday
Rotenberg, Boris
Rotenberg, Igor
Rothschild, Jacob
roubles
Rowley, Charlie
Rusal
Russia
as empire
as kleptocracy
as mafia state
as managed democracy
neo-feudal model of
as part of Europe
as sick man of Europe
Russian mafia
Russian Idea, The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Russians living outside of Russia, needing protection
Russian zone of influence
Ryzhkov, Vladimir
Sachs, Jeffrey
St Petersburg
organised crime
Pushkarsky Park electrical substation banner and murals
Sakharov, Andrei
Salisbury poisonings
Salye, Marina
Samaraneftegaz
sanctions
Sanders, Bernie
Schlumberger
Schools of Public Politics
Schröder, Gerhard
Scott, C. P.
SEB (FSB’s Economic Security Service)
Sechin, Igor
Sedov, Alexei
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Severnaya Neft
Shakespeare, William
Shalamov, Varlam
Shamalov, Kirill
Shamalov, Nikolai
Shamalov, Yury
Shchekochikhin, Yuri
Shcharansky, Anatoly
Shevchenko, Anastasia
Shevtsova, Lilia
Shield and the Sword, The
Sibneft
SIBUR
Silayev, Ivan
Siloviki (‘Strongmen’)
Simonov, Vladimir
Simonyan, Margarita
Skabeyeva, Olga
Skripal, Sergei
Skripal, Yulia
Sky News
Slavophiles
Smirnov, Yevgeny
Snow Revolution see Bolotnaya (Snow), Revolution
Sobchak, Anatoly
Sobyanin, Sergei
Sochi Olympics
social media
SolarWinds hack
Soldatov, Andrei
Soloviev, Vladimir
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Soros, George
Soviet Committee for Science and Technology
Soviet Union
collapse of
nostalgia for
Speransky, Mikhail
Stalin, Joseph
Starbucks
statism
Sturgess, Dawn
Sullivan, Jake
Surkov, Vladislav
SVR
Syrian civil war
Team
TEK Mosenergo
Telegram
Thatcher, Margaret
Third World War
Timchenko, Gennady
Tkachev, Ivan
Tolokonnikova, Nadezhda
Tomskneftegaz
Translator Project
Troitsky, Artyom
Troll Factory see Internet Research Agency (IRA), The
Trump, Donald
Trump, Donald, jr
Tsepov, Roman
Twentieth Trust
Ukraine
Maidan Revolution (2014)
as part of Russia
Russian intervention (2014)
Russian invasion (2022)
Russian trolling
see also Crimea
Ulyukaev, Alexey
‘undesirable’ organisations
US,
2016 presidential election
no recognition of Putin as president after, 2024
‘Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy’
Russian fear of
Russian ridicule of
storming of the Capitol (2021)
Syrian conflict
USSR see Soviet Union
Vaino, Anton
Vedomosti
Vekselberg, Viktor
Venezuela
Vershbow, Sandy
Volodin, Vyacheslav
Voloshin, Alexander
VTB Bank
VTimes
VTsIOM
Wagner Private Military Company (Wagner PMC)
Warnig, Matthias
Washington Post
Weimar Republic
Western business practices
Westernisers
Western pop music
Western view of Russia
Yakovenko, Alexander
Yakunin, Vladimir
Yanukovych, Viktor
Yashin, Ilya
Yauza
Yeltsin, Boris
young people
Nashi
Open Russia and
YouTube
Yuganskneftegaz (YNG)
Yugoslav war
Yukos oil company
Yushchenko, Viktor
Zakharova, Maria
Zolotov, Viktor
Zuckerberg, Mark
Zykov, Andrei
Zyuganov, Gennady
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY
In the early 2000s, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia, the head of the giant Yukos oil company, and ranked 16th on the Forbes list of world billionaires. But his pro-democracy, anti-corruption views led to a clash with President Vladimir Putin, who had him arrested in 2003. Convicted on politically motivated fraud charges, Khodorkovsky spent ten years in Putin’s prison camps, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Since his release in December 2013, Khodorkovsky has lived in Switzerland and the UK. He now leads the philanthropic Open Russia organisation, promoting political reform in Russia, including free and fair elections, the protection of journalists and activists, the rule of law and media independence. He has been described by the Economist as ‘the Kremlin’s leading critic-in-exile’. You can sign up for email updates here.