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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14522-0 - The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession Richard Sakwa Index More information Index Abakumov, V. S., 88 archaisation of Russian politics, 101 Abkhazia, 88 Argentina, 57 Abramovich, Roman, 94, 101, 128, 135, Arkhangel0skaya, Natal0ya, 101 185–7, 271, 338 Aron, Leon, 56, 82 administrative regime, 1, 6, 8, 10, 13, 19, Artem0ev, Igor, 324 21, 28–9, 30, 33, 35, 38, 41–2, 45, Artyakov, Vladimir, 175 47, 51–2, 85, 89, 93–4, 101–2, 105, Aslamazyan, Manana, 330 107–8, 114, 116, 125, 130, 132, A˚ slund, Anders, 72–3, 202, 271, 314 137, 144, 147, 149, 165, 184, 201, Association of Russian Lawyers, 285 270, 272, 301, 303–4, 307, 319, Astakhov, Pavel, 242 326–7, 333, 341–2, 347, 352–3, 355, Atatu¨rk, Kemal, 27 361–3, 365 Atomic Industry Complex Afanasiev, Mikhail, 78, 303 (Atomenergoprom), 155 Afghanistan, 120 Audit Chamber, 120, 194, 271 Agapova, Natalya, 242 authoritarian capitalism, 150, 319, 322 Agrarian Party, 4, 211, 217, 226, 246, 269, authoritarianism, 31, 37, 73, 76–7, 137–8, 294, 320 150, 230, 304, 332, 342 Akaev, Askar, 21 autonomy Akchurin, Renat, 242 external, 109, 135 Aksenenko, Nikolai, 161, 199 internal, 109, 116 Alekperov, Vagit, 135 Aven, Petr, 94, 201 Aleksashenko, Sergei, 158 Avisma (VSMPO), 155 Alekseeva, Ludmila, 278 Avtovaz, 126, 155, 175 Aleshin, Alexei, 199 Azerbaijan, 114 Alfa Group, 201 Alferov, Zhores, 222 Babakov, Alexander, 19, 262 Aliev, Heidar, 114 Baburin, Sergei, 211, 217, 227, 320 Alkhanov, Alu, 170 Baburova, Anastasia, 345 Alrosa (diamonds), 148 Baev, Pavel K., 100, 192 Altai region, 294 Baker, Peter, 190 Amsterdam, Robert, 40, 41 ballistic missile defence (BMD), 283, 345 Amur region, 176, 294–5 Balmaceda, Margarita, 110 Andijan, 67 Baltik-Eskort (security company), 186 Andropov, Yuri, 7, 137 Baluevsky, Yuri, 283 Angola, 122 Bank of New York (BONY), 193 Anichkin, Alexei, 191 Bank Rossiya, 141, 187 Anti-Corruption Council, 329 Barinov, Alexei, 175 Appel, Hilary, 147 Barshchevsky, Mikhail, 226, 269, 323 Aramco, 203 Barsukov, Vladimir, see also Kumarin, 174, Arbatova, Maria, 226 194, 208, 328 Arbitration Court of Samara Region, 331 Bashkortostan, 130, 166, 175, 250, Arcelor (steel group), 128 294–5, 317 385 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14522-0 - The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession Richard Sakwa Index More information 386 Index Basic Element, 146, 287, 338 capitalism Basmanny justice, 44, 286 anarcho-, 99 Bastrykin, Alexander, 186, 191–2, 200, comprador, 99 208, 272, 313, 317, 328, 359 Carnaghan, Ellen, 81 Beglov, Alexander, 317 Carothers, Thomas, 2, 312 Belarus, 49, 69, 72, 80, 110, 222 Caucasus, 30, 89, 251, 264, 307 Belkovsky, Stanislav, 146, 186, 188–9, 193, Central Asia, 89, 104, 111, 182 201, 203–5, 272–3 Central Bank, 335 Belyaninov, Andrei, 121 Central Bank of Russia (CBR), 126, 153, Belykh, Nikita, 17, 211, 223–4, 240, 249, 158, 275, 324 318, 322, 324 Central Committee, 309 Berezovsky, Boris, 6, 94–6, 99, 123, Central Electoral Commission (CEC), 133, 135, 138, 143, 149, 152, 212–13, 216–17, 226, 228, 244, 197, 256 246, 257, 264, 275, 277, Beridze, Svetlana, 275 279–80, 291 Beslan hostage crisis, 48, 138 Centre for Security Policy, 21 Biryukov, Yuri, 189 Centre for Strategic Research, 181 Bjorkman, Tom, 72, 77 Centre of National Military Glory, 171 Blank, Stephen, 54, 169 Chaika, Yuri, 174, 186–90, 192, 200, blat (favours), 91, 106 313, 317 Boeing, 152, 155, 157 Channel One TV station, 141, 170, Boeing and Airbus Industries, 152 297, 316 Boev, Valery, 330–1 Charap, Samuel, 108, 117 Bogdanchikov, Sergei, 89, 121, 207, Chechen wars, 74, 310 221, 338 Chechnya, 7, 30, 81, 90, 96, 130, 140–1, Bogdanov, Vladimir, 159, 211, 279, 282, 213, 226, 236, 250, 265 293–4, 323 Chekists, 83, 195, 251 Bonapartism, 85 Chelyabinsk Tank Academy, 168, 224 Boos, Georgy, 166 Chemezov, Sergei, 121, 129, 140, 153, Bordyuzha, Nikolai, 121 155, 176, 179, 199, 338 Borisov, Igor, 291 Cherkesov, Victor, 121–2, 140, 171, 174, Bortnikov, Alexander, 186, 191, 315–16 185–8, 191, 194–7, 200, 206, 208, Bovt, Georgi, 323 272, 279, 283, 313–14, 317, 355 Brazil, 49, 57, 58 Chernogorov, Alexander, 326 Bremmer, Ian, 117 Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 91, 95, 97, 101, Brezhnev, Leonid, 39, 52, 88–9, 303, 308, 128, 232 315, 350, 360 Chikhanchin, Yuri, 180 Britain, 167, 238 China, 31, 193–4, 342 British Council, 284 Chub, Vladimir, 294 British Virgin Islands, 338 Chubais, Anatoly, 20, 80, 90, 93, 116, 126, Browder, William, 332 138, 154, 197, 206, 224, 249, 252, Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 238 284, 323, 355 Buck, Andrew, 92 Chubais, Igor, 80 Bukharin, Nikolai, 53 Chudakova, Marietta, 224 Bukovsky, Vladimir, 279–80, 282, 297 Chuichenko, Konstantin, 317 Bulbov, Alexander, 186–7, 194–5, 200, Churchill, Winston, 53 316, 328–9, 355 Churov, Vladimir, 213–14, 216, 266, 291, Bulgakov, Mikhail, 224 327, 359 Bulgaria, 216, 230, 289 CIA, 237 Bunce, Valerie, 54 Civic Congress, 278, 288 Bunin, Igor, 148 Civic Force, 5, 211, 217, 226, 230, 246, Buryatia, 176 249, 252, 269, 294–5, 321 Bush, George W., 283 Civic Forum, 284–5 business capture, 146, 156 Civic Voice (Grazhdanskii golos) newspaper, business states, 150 245 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14522-0 - The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession Richard Sakwa Index More information Index 387 Civil Force (liberal grouping), 323 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), 238 civil society, 11, 30, 32, 48–9, 57, 77, 91, corruption 96, 118, 125, 209, 230, 232, 237, meta-, 44, 94, 102, 148, 285 245, 278, 286, 344, 361 venal, 44, 94, 148 civiliki, 127, 301, 317 Corruption Perceptions Index, 2007, clan, 73, 87–8, 93–5, 103, 106, 109, 173, 180 139, 189 Corus group (Anglo-Dutch), 128 Central Asian, 105 Corvalan, Luis, 279 finansisty, 192 Council for National Strategy, 193 St Petersburg KGB, 314 Council of Europe, 43, 189, 252 clans, 70, 73, 85, 87, 89–90, 93, 95, 104, Council of Ministers, 309 110–11, 133, 169, 187, 193, 219, Council on National Projects (CNP), 164 305, 313 Credit Restructuring Agency, 154 Kremlin, 346 Criminal Procedural Code (UPK), 44, 190 Cold War, 341 crisis, 1, 58, 115, 339–40, 365 Collective Security Treaty Organisation economic, 56, 147, 337, 339 (CSTO), 121 financial, 335–6, 340 Collins, Katherine, 103, 111 global, 354 Colombia, 57 legitimacy, 363 colour revolution, 20, 24, 30, 67, 68, 115, pensions, 56 160, 234, 241, 255, 359, 365 refugee, 310 colour revolution in Ukraine, 360 ruling regime, 241 Colton, Timothy, 8, 9, 10, 16, 45, succession, 184, 198, 209, 355, 365 65, 299 systemic, 354, 364 Comintern, 113 world financial, 308 Commission for Modernisation, 345 crisis of Russian democracy, 1, 258, 322, Committee 2008, 20, 278 326, 352 Committee for Foreign Economic Ties, 122 Cultural Revolution in China, 31 Commonwealth of Independent States Czech Republic, 283 (CIS), 38, 70, 110, 215–16, 238, 252, 267, 291–2, 356 D’Agostino, Anthony, 53, 123 Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, 216 Dagestan, 66, 213, 250–1, 293, 325 Communist Party of France (PCF), 320 Dahl, Robert, 86 Communist Party of the Russian Defence Council, 311 Federation (CPRF), 4, 8, 9, 12, deformed democracy, 24 14–17, 63, 66–7, 90, 108, 211, 217, Delovaya Rossiya business group, 323 222, 226, 228, 231, 233–4, 238, democracy paradox, 75 245–8, 250, 252, 259, 262, 265, democratic evolutionists, 51, 67 276, 293, 296, 299, 319–20, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), 113 325–6, 358 Democratic Party of Russia (DPR), 4–5, Communist Party of the Soviet Union 211, 217, 226, 228, 246, 249, 279, (CPSU), 275, 351 321, 323 Communist Workers for Russia (party), 4 democratic statists, 29, 124, 126, 131, 135, Communists, 16, 18, 19, 65–6, 91, 95, 139, 142, 146, 166, 265, 271 213, 222, 227–8, 251, 257, 261, democrats, 6, 7, 10, 74–5, 81, 197 276, 293, 301, 320, 326 Democrats in America, 28 Congress of People’s Deputies, 205 Denikin, Anton, 171 Congress of Russian Communities (KRO), 4 Department for Countering Organised Conquest, Robert, 54 Crime and Terrorism, 134 Constitutional Court, 256, 261, 318, 330 Deposit Insurance Agency, 153–4 Constitutional Democrats (Kadets), 15 Deripaska, Oleg, 128, 135, 146, 185–6, constitutional liberalism, 37 287, 338 constitutionalism, 13, 37, 38, 41–2, 47, 49, developed socialism, 40 51, 68, 154, 327, 353 Development Bank (Vneshekonombank, Control Directorate, 317 VEB), 152, 154, 172, 249, 336 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14522-0 - The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession Richard Sakwa Index More information 388 Index Dialogue of Civilisations convention in Cherkesov, 200 Rhodes, 171 family, 185 Diskin, Iosif, 339–40 financial, 313 Dmitriev, Vladimir, 154 finansisty, 182 Dnepropetrovsk, 88, 110 Kremlin, 29, 109 Donetsk, 110 liberal, 200 Dorenko, Sergei, 9 old Muscovite, 124 Dorogin, Valery, 140 Sechin, 169, 200, 205, 262, 272, 315 Dorogomilovsky District Court in sectoral industrial, 128 Moscow, 331 security, 306 Dovgy, Dmitry, 328 silovik, 34, 120, 122, 175, 272, 283, 317 dual state, 1, 9, 13, 29, 36, 38–41, 73, 84, silovik sub-, 122, 317 86, 89, 99, 105–9, 151, 214, 300–2, United Russia (UR), 227 312, 319, 326, 333, 337, 341–2, faction fights, 180, 207, 274 348, 363 factionalism, 25, 27, 35, 47, 49, 92, 101, dualism 105, 109, 113, 137, 147, 306, 319, fundamental, 30 342,
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    Working Paper October 2020 Authors Dr. Sergey Sukhankin Alla Hurska Russia’s Private Military Contractors: Cause for Worry? About the Authors Dr. Sergey Sukhankin is a Fellow at the James- Alla Hurska is an associate expert at the International town Foundation, an Advisor at the Gulf State Center for Policy Studies (Kyiv), and a research assis- Analytics (both – Washington DC) and an Asso- tant at the University of Alberta. Hurska’s research ciate Expert at the International Center for Policy at the University of Alberta concerns geo-econom- Studies (Kyiv). His areas of scientific interest pri- ic and geopolitical issues in the post-Soviet area, marily concern socio-economic developments including the Arctic region and geopolitics of gas in the Baltic Sea region, Russian information and and oil. She is also interested in the role of Rus- cyber security, A2/AD concept and its interpre- sian propaganda campaigns in influencing public tation in Russia, as well as the development of opinion and decision-making in post-Soviet coun- Russia Private Military Companies (geo-econom- tries. Her articles and expert comments have been ic compound) as an instrument of “power eco- solicited by international think tanks, research in- nomics”. Dr. Sukhankin has consulted/briefed stitutions, and news outlets, including Diplomaatia such top-notch institutions as the EU Parliament (Estonia), ICPS (Ukraine), Kyiv Post (Ukraine) and, in (Brussels), CSIS (Ottawa), DIA (Washington DC). Spain, CIDOB, Autonomous University of Barcelo- na, El Periódico de Catalunya, and El Confidencial. Funding Acknowledgment This Working Paper was funded by the Defence and Security Foresight Group which receives fund- ing from the Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) program designed to facilitate collaboration and mobilize knowledge between the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, and academia and other experts on defence and security issues.