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INTRODUCTION
1
THE SECRET POLICEMAN’S BALL
A new millennium
Yeltsin and Clinton
Yeltsin’s Russia
From kommunalka to Kremlin
2
COURTING THE WEST
‘I want Russia to be part of Europe’
Seeing Putin’s soul
Fighting the Taliban together
The George ’n’ Vladimir show
3
THE BATTLE FOR ECONOMIC REFOR
Putting a new team together
Privatising the people’s land
Hands off Gazprom
The good life
4
THE DARKER SIDE
Muzzling the media
The vertical of power
The Chechen war and the backlash
Taming the oligarchs
The Khordorkovsky affair
The reaction
The two faces of Putin
5
NEW EUROPE, OLD EUROPE
A foot in NATO’s door
Just what do we think of Russia?
NATO’s sun shines on eastern Europe
Putin’s tongue lets him down again
Allies against the Iraq war
Putin snubbed
6
PUTIN MARK II
Georgia looks West
Election night
Beslan and the ‘constitutional coup’
7
ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
The Orange Revolution
The backlash
Triumph of the strongmen
The energy weapon
8
A NEW COLD WAR
Tempers get frayed
Murder of Anna Politkovskaya
It’s our oil
A Cold War encounter
A Cold War murder
Showing initiative
9
MEDIA, MISSILES, MEDVEDEV
A Western PR machine
Other Western approaches
Munich
The threat from Iran… or Russia
Paralysis in the Kremlin
Putin’s presidential legacy
10
THE DESCENT INTO WAR
From Kosovo to Bucharest
The roots of the problem
Galloping to war
The war and its consequences
11
RESETTING RELATIONS WITH THE WEST
Repercussions of the Caucasus war
The Obama effect
iMedvedev
12
THE STRONGMAN AND HIS FRIENDS
Weathering the global financial crisis
The need to reform
Crooks and thieves
13
TANDEMOLOGY
A bicycle built for two
2011: Paralysis again – the phoney campaign
CONCLUSION
NOTES
Chapter 1. The Secret Policeman’s Ball
Chapter 2. Courting the West
Chapter 3. The Battle for Economic Reform
Chapter 4. The Darker Side
Chapter 5. New Europe, Old Europe
Chapter 6. Putin Mark II
Chapter 7. Enemies Everywhere
Chapter 8. A New Cold War
Chapter 9. Media, Missiles, Medvedev
Chapter 10. The Descent into War
Chapter 11. Resetting Relations with the West
Chapter 12. The Strongman and His Friends
Chapter 13. Tandemology
Conclusion
ILLUSTRATIONS
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