Chapter 6. Putin Mark II
1. Interview with Igor Ivanov, 11 December 2010.
2. Interview with Nino Burjanadze, 29 March 2011.
3. Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili, 9 May 2005.
4. See Thomas de Waal, The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp 194–5.
5. Interview with Colin Powell, 3 March 2011.
6. de Waal, The Caucasus, p 197.
7. Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili, 31 March 2011.
8. Wall Street Journal, 30 August 2008, Daily Telegraph, 23 August 2008.
9. de Waal, The Caucasus, p 199.
10. Interview with Eduard Kokoity, 4 April 2011.
11. The cause of the fire, which left only the outer walls intact, has never been fully established. The destruction of the historic building (erected after the Napoleonic fire of 1812) provided an excuse for its total reconstruction, which was criticised by conservationists for distorting the original architectural vision.
12. Komsomolskaya Pravda, 28 September 2004.
13. Surkov on Chechen television, 8 July 2011, quoted by Interfax and Reuters.
14. Dmitry Trenin, ‘Moscow the Muscular’: The Loneliness of an Aspiring Power Center (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center Briefing, volume 11, issue 1, January 2009).
Chapter 7. Enemies Everywhere
1. Interview with Leonid Kuchma, 22 March 2011.
2. Interview with John E. Herbst, 16 May 2011.
3. Interview with Gleb Pavlovsky, 18 February 2011.
4. Interview with Sergei Markov, 30 June 2011.
5. Interview with Oleh Rybachuk, 28 November 2010.
6. Interview with Viktor Yushchenko, 29 November 2010.
7. Interview with Alexander Kwaśniewski, 24 November 2010.
8. Interview with Leonid Kuchma, 22 March 2011.
9. Interview with Alexander Kwaśniewski, 24 November 2010.
10. Washington Post, 9 February 2010.
11. Gleb Pavlovsky, Nezavisimaya gazeta, 7 December 2004.
12. Nezavisimaya gazeta, 7 December 2004.
13. Interview with Tony Brenton, 5 April 2011.
14. ICNL (The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law), volume 9, issue 1, December 2006.
15. Interview with Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 23 February 2011.
16. Interview with Jonathan Powell, 9 March 2011.
17. Interview with Mikhail Kasyanov, 16 February 2011.
18. Interview with Viktor Yushchenko, 29 November 2010.
19. Interview with Damon Wilson, 2 March 2011.
20. Interview with Oleh Rybachuk, 28 November 2010.
21. Interview with John E. Herbst, 16 May 2011.
Chapter 8. A New Cold War
1. Interview with Stephen Hadley, 24 January 2011.
2. Rather was at the centre of a controversy after publicising documents critical of President Bush’s military service during the 2004 presidential campaign. The documents’ authenticity was later disputed, and in November Rather announced he would retire the following March, but there was never any suggestion that Bush had put pressure on CBS to fire him.
3. Interview with Damon Wilson, 2 March 2011.
4. Interviews with Nicholas Burns, 21 January 2011, and Condoleezza Rice, 20 June 2011.
5. Wikileaks cable in the Guardian, 1 December 2010.
6. Interview with Oleg Mitvol, 14 April 2010.
7. These events are reconstructed from interviews with Condoleezza Rice, Bill Burns, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Ivanov, Sergei Lavrov and others.
8. Some of Litvinenko’s colleagues later ‘returned’ to the FSB fold and accused him of having tricked them into making this appearance. For an excellent account of all the conspiracy theories and intrigues surrounding the case, see Martin Sixsmith, The Litvinenko File (London: Macmillan, 2007).
9. Yelena Tregubova, http://www.viperson.ru/wind.php?ID=413357&soch=1 (last accessed 7 September 2011).
10. Interview with David Miliband, 7 July 2011.
11. Interview with Sergei Lavrov, 25 October 2010.
12. Sixsmith, The Litvinenko File, pp 303ff.
Chapter 9. Media, Missiles, Medvedev
1. Dmitry Peskov, interviewed on Dozhd television, 4 October 2011.
2. US companies are obliged to declare fees received from foreign principals for ‘political activities’. For the period January to June 2008, the fee declared by Ketchum and its partner The Washington Group for work done in North America and Japan on behalf of the Russian Federation was $2,436,600. GPlus received a similar sum for its work in Europe, making a total of almost $5 million for that six-month period. The initial contract for the G8 year has been rolled over year by year, with the fees for each new contract varying somewhat.
3. Dmitry Peskov, interviewed on Dozhd television, 4 October 2011.
4. See, for example, The New Times, 16 March 2009.
5. See Luke Harding, Mafia State (London: Guardian Books, 2011).
6. Lilia Shevtsova, Lonely Power (Moscow: Carnegie Endowment, 2010), pp 98ff.
7. Interviews with Dan Fata, 1 March 2011, and Eric Edelman, 4 March 2011.
8. Dmitri Trenin, ‘Moscow the Muscular’: The Loneliness of an Aspiring Power Center (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center Briefing, volume 11, issue 1, January 2009).
9. Interview with Sergei Prikhodko, 30 June 2011.
10. Off-the-record interview with senior Russian official.
11. Interview with Condoleezza Rice, 30 June 2011.
12. Interview with Stephen Hadley, 24 January 2011.
13. Interview with Eric Edelman, 4 March 2011.
14. Interview with Robert Gates, 16 May 2011.
15. Interview with Sergei Lavrov, 25 October 2010.
16. Interview with Anatoly Antonov, 2 April 2011.
17. Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov, Putin: Itogi (Moscow: Novaya gazeta, 2008).
18. Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, ‘The Myth of the Authoritarian Model’, Foreign Affairs, volume 87, number 1, January/February 2008.
Chapter 10. The Descent into War
1. Interview with Damon Wilson, 2 March 2011.
2. Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili, 31 March 2011.
3. Interview with Jean-David Levitte, 12 March 2011.
4. Interview with Robert Gates, 16 May 2011.
5. Interview with Stephen Hadley, 24 January 2011.
6. Interview with Radoslaw Sikorski, 25 November 2010.
7. Interview with Condoleezza Rice, 20 June 2011.
8. Interview with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 20 June 2011.
9. Angus Roxburgh, ‘Georgia Fights for Nationhood’, National Geographic, volume 181, number 5, May 1992.
10. Quoted in Thomas de Waal, The Caucasus: An Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), p 208.
11. Interview with Damon Wilson, 2 March 2011.
12. http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_Russia_Plan_Its_War_In_Georgia__/1191460.html (last accessed 7 September 2011).
13. Interview with Giorgi Bokeria, 30 March 2011.
14. Interview with Batu Kutelia, 29 March 2011.
15. Interview with Nino Burjanadze, 29 March 2011.