Russia and the CIS in 2007 putin's final year?

Asian Survey

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-143

  Ziegler, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Energy; Russia; State power; Succession

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ENERGY MARKET; FOREIGN POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEADERSHIP; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL RELATIONS; STATE ROLE;

ASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 44349187607     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: 1533838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2008.48.1.133     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. A place high on the list reportedly went for $2-4 million. Being on the United Russia list was good advertising, helped protect executives from harassment by the police or mafias, and if they were elected, guaranteed them immunity from prosecution.
2. Francesca Mereu, "Security Infighting All About Money," Moscow Times, October 29,2007.
3. These regional leaders were, in order, Leonid Korotkov, Ivan Malakhov, Mikhail Prusak, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, Konstantin Titov, and Sherig-Ool Oorzhak.
4. The other member states are Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
5. The FSB's patron saint is Aleksandr Nevsky, the Ministry of the Interior has Saint Vladimir, the Border Guards Saint Ilya Muromets, and the Strategic Rocket Forces chose Saint Barbara as their spiritual defender, according to Peter Finn, Washington Post, April 20, 2007.
6. "Cheka" is from the Russian initials for the Extraordinary Commission (Chrezvychainaya Komissiya), the original Soviet secret police established by Vladimir Lenin in 1917, and headed by Feliks Dzerzhinsky.
7. The Corruption Perception Index can be accessed at 〈http://www. transparency.org/policy-research/surveys-indices/cpi/2007〉.
8. The evidence is circumstantial. Politkovskaya, who followed events in Chechnya closely, interviewed Kadyrov at his headquarters in Tsentoroy in 2004. She subsequently characterized him as a deranged and brutal coward, accusing him of widespread torture. Politkovskaya, who had told colleagues she was being threatened by Kadyrov and his people, was working on a story on torture in Chechen prisons when she was gunned down in her apartment building. See C. J. Chivers, "Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead," New York Times, October 8, 2006; Claire Bigg, "Russia: Politkovskaya Investigating Chechen Torture at Time of Death," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, October 9, 2006, 〈http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/ 0fe50696-438e-453e-9f74- 401bde7a9bb0.html〉.