The siloviki in Putin's Russia: Who they are and what they want

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-92

  Bremmer, Ian ^a   Charap, Samuel ^b  

^a World Policy Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845615321     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/wash.2006-07.30.1.83     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Harley Balzer, "The Putin Thesis and Russian Energy Policy," Post-Soviet Affairs 21, no. 3 (July-September 2005): 210-225.
2. See also "'It All Boils Down to Plagiarism' [Re: Putin Dissertation]," Washington Profile #3a-JRL 2006-78, March 31, 2006, http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2006-78-3a.cfm (interview with Clifford Gaddy).
3. For prominent exceptions, see Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, "Putin's Militocracy," Post-Soviet Affairs 19, no. 4 (October-December 2003): 289-306
4. Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, "Inside the Putin Court: A Research Note," Europe-Asia Studies 57, no. 7 (November 2005): 1065-1075
5. Pavel K. Baev, "The Evolution of Putin's Regime: Inner Circles and Outer Walls," Problems of Post-Communism 51 no. 6 (November-December 2004): 3-13
6. Sharon Werning Rivera and David W Rivera, "The Russian Elite Under Putin; Militocratic or Bourgeois?" Post-Soviet Affairs 22, no. 2 (April-June 2006): 125-144.
7. For more background on these individuals, see Samuel Charap, "Siloviki faction core members," October 2006, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1944/core.pdf.
8. Basic biographical data comes from official Web sites and published sources, including Aleksei Mukhin, Piterskoe okruzhenie prezidenta (Moscow: Tsentr politicheskoi informatsii, 2003)
9. Aleksei Mukhin, Praviteli rossii: staraia ploshchad'i belyi dom (Moscow: Algoritum, 2005)
10. Aleksei Mukhin, Putin: blizhnii krug prezidenta (Moscow: Algoritum, 2005)
11. Aleksei Mukhin, Administratsiia prezidenta rossii: neofitsial'nyi vzgliad na ofitsial'nykh liudei (Moscow: Tsentr politicheskoi informatsii, 2005).
12. For a more complete listing of the secondary and tertiary sub-groups, see Samuel Charap, "Siloviki faction secondary and tertiary members," October 2006, http://users.ox-ac.uk/~magd1944/members.pdf.
13. Viktor Cherkesov, "Nevedomstvennye razmyshleniia o professii," Komsomol'skaia Pravda, December 29, 2004, http://dlib.eastview.com.
14. For a more complete listing, see Samuel Charap, "Siloviki ties to business and government in Russia," October 2006, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1944/siloviki.pdf.
15. See Elena Kiseleva, "Vo Vneshekonombank prishel ekonomicheskii kontrrazvedchik," Kommersant, March 15, 2004, http://site.securities.com
16. Novaia Gazeta, September 11, 2003, http://2003.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/ 2003/67n/n67n-s00.shtml (Kremlin consultant Gleb Pavlovsky's report)
17. "Pokupatel' s gosudarstvennym myshleniem," Moskovskie Novosti, April 2, 2004, http://site.securities.com.
18. Ekaterina Derbilova and Boris Safronov, "Rosneft' vyruchil vneshnii dolg," Vedomosti, August 15, 2005, http://site.securities.com.
19. See Timur L. Poliannikov, "Logika avtoritarizma," Svobodnaia mysl', no. 1 (2005): 59-60
20. Kryshtanovskaya and White, "Inside the Putin Court," p. 1073.
21. Kryshtanovskaya and White, "Inside the Putin Court," p. 1072.
22. Stefan Wagstyl, "U.S. 'Risks Playing Into Hardliners' Hands' in Russia," Financial Times, September 8, 2006.
23. See Ian Bremmer, "Who's in Charge in the Kremlin?" World Policy Journal 22, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006);
24. Samuel Charap, "A Rough Selection Campaign," Moscow Times, July 10, 2006, p. 9.