-rise of anti-Semitism last year. Masha Kondrachuk and Stephen Ennis, “Jews reject Russia claims of Ukraine anti-Semitism,” BBC report, November 12, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-2999i777.
-a fair trial, by Russian legal standards. Quoted in a Russian report at Grani.ru in October 2003. Ambassador Vershbow also expressed concern about Russian justice being “applied selectively.” and I wish you courage! It’s available here, also with audio: http://www.rferl.org/content/Text_Of_Closing_Statement_By_Mikhail_Khodorkovsky/2208523.html.
CHAPTER 7: OFF THE BOARD, INTO THE FIRE
-to fight for those people and to fight for those things. Garry Kasparov, “The Great Game,” Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2005.
-orders to arrest you if you try to go. J. F. O. McAllister; Paul Quinn-Judge; Yuri Zarakhovich, “The Talks that Failed,” Time, September 13, 2004.
-I was going to Beslan to set up talks. J. F. O. McAllister; “Communication Breakdown,” Time, September 12, 2004.
-broke their silence to denounce it as a cover-up. “Beslan School Siege Inquiry ‘a Cover-up,’” Herald (Scotland), February 10, 2007, http://www.heraldscotland.com/beslan-school-siege-inquiry-a-cover-up-1.829305.
-hostages who could have been saved were burned alive. David Satter, Weekly Standard 12, no. 9, November 13, 2006.
-we will all be to blame! Gessen, The Man Without a Face, 193-94.
-Western-style values and universal values. President George W. Bush, speaking to the pro-democracy organization Freedom House, March 29, 2006.
CHAPTER 8: OPERATION MEDVEDEV
-“intelligent” and “of another generation.” USA Today Editorial board interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, December 11, 2007, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/rice-transcript.pdf.
-“troubling” record on human rights. All quotes are from the set of articles on Putin in the December 19, 2007, Time Person of the Year section. These included an interview in which Putin was asked why Russia’s elections weren’t more open and why I had been jailed. Putin’s amazing response: “Why did Mr. Kasparov, when arrested, speak out in English rather than Russian? When a politician works the crowd of other nations rather than the Russian nation, it tells you something.” Of course, I was addressing the many foreign reporters in English after already speaking in Russian.
-is a potential danger to its own security. Time, “Adolf Hitler: 1938 TIME man of the year,” January 2, 1939.
-“gravely concerned” and “strongly condemn” Quotes from statements of the Extraordinary European Council meetings on the situation in Georgia in August 2008.
-caused more damage to the Russian government than her writings. A remark Putin made to the press in Germany on October 10, 2006, four days after Politkovskaya’s murder.
-dizzy with the smell of oil and gas! Vaclav Havel, quoted widely at the time after the event and cited in the film’s press kit.
-highest quality in the world. All quotes are from press coverage of Medvedev’s statements at the World Russian Press Congress in Moscow on June 11, 2008.
-Russian cities as well as on foreign soil. The 2009 murder of Kadyrov rival Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai being the most sensational. Dubai police accused Kadyrov’s cousin (and state Duma member) of the murder. Yamadayev’s brother Ruslan was killed in Moscow in 2008.
-if NATO had approved Georgia’s MAP [Membership Application Plan] application. Bush, Decision Points, 7945-7947.
CHAPTER 9: THE AUDACITY OF FALSE HOPE
-with Marshall and Acheson and Kennan. Said by Obama during an interview on Fareed Zakaria GPS, December 28, 2008. Obama went on to praise the foreign policy of President George H. W. Bush.
-in all lands, everywhere. A version of this appears on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
-inspiring rhetoric with decisive action. In my November 5, 2008, op-ed for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and published widely. Full text available here with no paywalclass="underline" http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/11/05/kasparov-on-obama-and-how-russia-sees-america/.
-condemn Russia’s “aggressive action.” All quotes from campaign press releases, which came out at a furious pace.
-American exceptionalism projected by President Bush’s first term. Ben Smith, “‘Invasion of Georgia’ a ‘3 a.m. moment,’” Politico, August 9, 2008.
-the independence of former Soviet Republics. Senator McCain’s entire August 11, 2008, statement on Georgia is worth reading: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/mccain_statement_on_georgia.html.
-Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev should decide. Interview with Igor Yurgens at Gazeta.ru, February 2010.
-memorably referring to BP as “Bolshoi Petroleum.” Quoted widely in the press, January 14, 2011. Representative Markey was the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee at the time.
-policy toward Russia has been: “We give, Russia gets.” Mitt Romney, “Bowing to the Kremlin,” Politico, March 27, 2012.
-dismissed his claims as political bluster. Mitt Romney, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), Kindle edition, locations 4916-20.
-docile people and they were attacked unfairly. Transcript of the Fox News video clip that’s still available online: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1624799524001/anti-putin-rallies-continue-in-russia/?#sp=show-clips.
CHAPTER 10: WAR AND APPEASEMENT
-Rotenberg alone received $7.4 billion in contracts. “Castles in the Sand,” Economist, July 13, 2013.
-Tokyo in 1940 and Rome in 1944. They were canceled due to the outbreak of World War II. The next Olympic Games were in London in 1948.
-a piece of Putin’s neo-USSR. Garry Kasparov, “Les Jeux et la verite,” Le Monde, February 24, 2014.
-before I’d finished saying the word “Berlin.” My aide Mig Greengard started calling this “the Hitler eye roll” during my many interviews before and during Sochi. He also noted that the eye rolls over these comparisons mostly stopped after Putin annexed Crimea as I’d warned he would.