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7. “Sluzhba, kotoroy ne vidno” [Service which is not visible], a report from the SVR HQ, Vesti, TV Saturday show, October 8, 2016, https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2807761.
CHAPTER 34: THE FEARS OF THE SUPER-RICH
1. Conversation with Eugene Kaspersky at the German Economic Forum in 2017; Convent Kongress GmbH, “Deutsches Wirtschaftsforum 2017: Eugene Kaspersky,” YouTube, November 27, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXymYcG0GQ.
2. Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the US Senate, March 30, 2017, https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-intelligence-matters-1.
3. Gordon Lubold and Shane Harris, “Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on US Cyber Defense,” Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108.
4. For more details, see Soldatov and Borogan, The Red Web.
5. Soldatov and Borogan, The Red Web.
6. In February 2019, Kaspersky’s employee Ruslan Stoyanov was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison.
7. Authors’ conversation with Alexander Lebedev, July 2018.
8. In 2006–2008, we worked in Novaya Gazeta, and we didn’t notice any interference in our reporting.
9. Alexander Lebedev, Ochota na bankira [Hunting a banker] (Moscow: Izdatelstvo E., 2017).
10. Anne Applebaum, “In from the Cold,” New York Times Style Magazine, March 8, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/t-magazine/evgeny-lebedev-in-from-the-cold.html.
11. Shaun Walker, “Putin Tells Journalists to Keep ‘Snotty Noses’ Out of His Business,” Independent, April 19, 2008, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-tells-journalists-to-keep-snotty-noses-out-of-his-business-811794.html.
12. “Billionaire Lebedev Sells Red Wings for 1 Ruble,” Moscow Times, April 5, 2013, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/billionaire-lebedev-sells-red-wings-for-1-ruble-22992.
13. Lebedev YouTube channel [in Russian], “Prosto grazhdanskoye obshestvo. Reportazh s mitinga” [Just a civic society, a reportage from the manifestation], December 25, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYX8zAzbW8.
14. Authors’ conversation with Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr.
EPILOGUE
1. Coordination Council of the Russian Compatriots Abroad, “The Immortal Regiment in the United States,” https://ksors.org/?p=17627.
2. He was not alone; two recent Russian exiles also spoke up at the hearings: Vladimir Ashurkov, of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and Roman Borisovich, of ClampK. For details, see UK Parliament, “Moscow’s Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK,” May 21, 2018, https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmfaff/932/93202.htm.
3. This prompted the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish op-eds with headlines like “Is Harvard Whitewashing a Russian Oligarch’s Fortune?” (Ann Marlowe, New York Times, December 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/harvard-russian-oligarch-whitewash.html) and “It’s Time for Think Tanks and Universities to Take a Democracy Pledge” (Thorsten Benner, Washington Post, January 16, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/16/its-time-think-tanks-universities-take-democracy-pledge/?utm_term=.4fee368eda44).
4. Mike Eckel, “World-Renowned Scientific University Quietly Untangles Itself from Russian Billionaire,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 15, 2019, https://www.rferl.org/a/mit-quietly-untangles-itself-from-russian-billionaire/29708417.html.
5. Free Russia Foundation website, https://www.4freerussia.org/about/.
6. “St. Petersburg Court Upholds Customs Seizure of Masha Gessen’s New Book about Modern-Day Russian ‘Totalitarianism,’” Meduza, January 16, 2019, https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/01/16/a-search-of-masha-gessen-s-book-in-russian-customs-was-based-on-the-author-s-reputation-not-the-book-s-contents-a-st-petersburg-court-has-nonetheless-ruled-the-seizure-was-legal.
7. Leonid Eitingon, Pisma iz Vladimirskoy turmi [Letters from Vladimir prison] (Moscow: Algoritm, 2018).
8. Fyodor Tyutchev, “No, Russia Can’t Be Understood,” https://lyricstranslate.com/en/умом-россию-не-понять-no-russia-cant-be-understood.html.
9. Lesley Chamberlain, Lenin’s Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006), 82–83.
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