I was taught to survive, and I have survived. I hope that one day we will be able to say the same about mankind.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It was my eldest son, Andrey, who first suggested that I write this book, and to him I owe thanks for the unstinting intellectual support that helped me to overcome my initial uncertainty. I would like to thank all those people whose love and devotion helped me to come through the toughest period in my life.
I am also very grateful to my friends who supported me during this work, and also to everyone at Biteback for their work on this book.
However, I would like to reserve my greatest thanks for all my colleagues, both those I have named in this book and the many I have not. There is very little I could have achieved in my life without your talents, dedication, professionalism and support. There are some, too, to whom I owe my life – my gratitude to them knows no bounds.
INDEX
Footnotes are indicated by the use of ‘n’, e.g. 15n
Abkhazia 1
Abramovich, Roman 1, 2n
Adamkus, Valdas 1
Adler 1, 2, 3
Adler–Krasnaya Polyana rail line 1
Afghanistan 1
agents, secret service 1, 2, 3
Aksenenko, Nikolai 1, 2
alcoholism 1
All-Union Leninist Young Communist League 1n
Alliance of Civilizations 1
Alpika 1
Andrew, St (Andrew The First-Called) 1
Andropov Krasnoznamenny Institute (KGB) 1, 2
Andropov, Yuri 1, 2, 3
Androsov, Kirill 1
Anti-Monopoly Committee 1
Antonov 1 (plane) 2
Armenia 1
Armenian General Benevolent Union 1
Association of Hackers 1
Association of Sailors 1
audit committees 1
authorities, local 1, 2, 3, 4
Baikal-Amur (BAM) railway 1
Baltic republics 1, 2
Baltic Shipping Company 1, 2
Baltic–US Charter 1
BAM (Baikal-Amur) railway 1, 2
banking system 1, 2
banks
Deutsche Bank 1n, 2
Onexim Bank 1
Rossiya Bank 1
World Bank 1, 2
Bashkortostan 1
Baskin, Ilya 1
Bastrykin, Alexander 1
Belarus 1n
Berezovsky, Boris 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6
Berlin airport 1
‘best practice’ theory 1
birth rate 1
blackmail 1, 2, 3
Bokarev, Andrei 1
Bologoye 1
Bolsheviks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Brezhnev, Leonid 1, 2
bribery 1, 2, 3
Britain 1
Buran programme 1
Bush, George H. W. 1, 2
business leaders 1
businesses, registration of 1
Canada Line, Vancouver 1
Carnegie, Dale 1
Castro, Fidel 1
Caucasus region 1, 2
charities 1
Chechnya 1, 2
Chekha (secret police) 1
Chernenko, Konstantin 1
Chief Control Directorate of the President 1, 2
China 1
Chubais, Anatoly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chung-hee, Park 1n
churches, destruction of 1, 2
Churchill, Winston 1
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) 1, 2
civilisations 1
Clash of Civilisations, The (Huntington) 1
Cooperatives, Law on (1988) 1, 2
coal industry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
cold-war mentality 1
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 1, 2
communism 1, 2, 3, 4
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) 1
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5
conservation 1, 2
construction projects 1
consumerism 1
corporate boards 1n
corruption 1, 2, 3
CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5
crime, organised 1
Crimean War 1, 2
cultural differences 1, 2, 3, 4
Czechoslovakia 1
Deep Yar Waterfall 1, 2, 3, 4
Deripaska, Oleg 1
Deutsche Bank 1n, 2
Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) 1, 2
diplomacy 1
diplomats 1, 2, 3, 4
Directorate of the President, Chief Control 1, 2
DOC (Dialogue of Civilizations) 1, 2
Dragon’s Mouth (waterfall) 1, 2, 3
druzhina (neighbourhood watch) 1
Duma (Russian parliament) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dvorkovich, Arkady 1
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 1
Dzerzhinsky Higher School (KGB) 1
earthquakes, threat of 1
economy 1, 2, 3
education (vospitanie) 1
Emergency Situations, Ministry of 1
energy sector 1
Enlai, Zhou 1
entrepreneurship 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
environmental issues 1, 2, 3, 4
Estonia 1n, 2, 3
Eurotunnel 1
exports 1, 2
Ezugbaia, Irakli 1
Fadeev, Gennady 1
FBI 1, 2, 3
Federal Security Service (FSB) 1, 2
Finance, Ministry of 1, 2, 3, 4
financial crisis (2008) 1, 2
Forte, Sir Rocco 1
Foundation of Andrew The First-Called, The 1
France 1
Franco, Francisco 1
Frank, Sergei 1, 2, 3
FSB (Federal Security Service) 1, 2
Fursenko, Andrey 1
Fursenko, Sergey 1
Gaidar, Yegor 1
Gazprom 1
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5
geography 1, 2, 3, 4
geopolitics 1
Georgia 1
germanium (semiconductor material) 1
Germany 1n, 2
glasnost 1
Global Ports Investments PLC 1
Golubeva, Elena 1
Gorbachev, Mikhail
presidency 1, 2, 3
and Yeltsin 1, 2
Gosplan 1
Great Patriotic War 1, 2, 3, 4
Gref, Herman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5
Guidi, Federica 1
Gujral, I. K. 1
gulags (labour camps) 1, 2
Gulf of Finland 1, 2
Gusinsky, Vladimir 1
Hackers, Association of 1
Hanseatic League 1
healthcare system 1, 2
Holy Fire, the 1, 2
Homo Sovieticus 1
Hotel, Astoria, St Petersburg 1, 2
Hotel Europa, St Petersburg 1
hotels, privatisation of 1
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie) 1
Huntington, Professor Samuel 1
hyper-inflation 1
industry 1, 2
infant mortality, world 1
inflation, hyper- 1
International Centre for Business Cooperation 1, 2
International Olympic Committee 1, 2, 3
International Union of Railways 1
investment, foreign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute 1, 2
Islamism 1, 2, 3, 4n
Ivanovich, Vladimir 1
Izrailit, Valery 1, 2, 3
Japanese War 1
Jerusalem 1
JSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port 1, 2
JSC Ust-Luga 1, 2, 3
Juan Carlos I, king 1
Judaism 1
judicial system 1
Kadyrov, Akhmad 1
Kaliningrad 1n
Kang Kyung Ho 1, 2
Kapur, Jagdish 1
Karst topography 1
Kazan 1
KGB
and CPSU 1
destruction of files 1
First Directorate 1
freedom and 1
Putin and 1
training 1
use of persuasion 1
See also FSB (Federal Security Service)