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Orders to Kill

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by Amy Knight


  44.  See the blog by Vadim Birstein, Russian Retropective, “Kara-Murza’s Brave Fight,” http://www.vbirstein.com/karamurza/. Also see Masha Gessen, “’Total Catastrophie of the Body: A Russian Story,” NYR Daily, February 21, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/21/total-catastrophe-of-the-body-kara-murza-poisoning/.

  45.  Ibid.

  46.  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5311416183001/?#sp=show-clips.

  47.  https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/floor-statements?ID=D0AAD5B4-2827-484A-B0CD-088C1536DCAD.

  48.  http://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-friend-poisoned-russian-activists-wife-tells-trump/story?id=45310449.

  13. Kadyrov, Putin, and Power in the Kremlin

    1.  Fitzpatrick, “Putin’s Usual Suspects.”

    2.  See Amy Knight, “The Kremlin’s Chechen Dragon,” NYR Daily, May 27, 2010, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2010/05/27/kremlins-chechen-dragon/.

    3.  Nemtsov, Ispoved’, 129–130.

    4.  Ilya Yashin, “A Threat To National Security: An Independent Expert Report,” Moscow, Februrary 2016, http://www.4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/A-Threat-to-National-Security.pdf.

    5.  As quoted in Yashin, “A Threat to National Security.”

    6.  North Caucasus Weekly, no. 45, vol. 7, November 2006., https://jamestown.org/program/movladi-baisarov-killed-in-moscow-2/.

    7.  Knight, “The Kremlin’s Chechen Dragon.”

    8.  Joshua Yaffa, “Putin’s Dragon,” The New Yorker, February 8 and 15, 2016. That Aliyev became a shameless apologist for the Kadyrov regime, after a career as an independent journalist, is clear from an interview he gave to Prague Watchdog on May 8, 2008. When asked about the testimonies of victims of Kadyrov on widespread torture and summary executions that were collected by human-rights activists, he responded: “The people who said there was torture and killing did not present me with any evidence,” http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000004-000001-000226&lang=1.

    9.  “The Family: A Film about Ramzan Kadyrov, Whom Putin Calls a Son,” Open Russia, May 25, 2015, http://www.khodorkovsky.com/the-family-a-film-about-ramzan-kadyrov/.

  10.  “Counter-terrorism in the North Caucasus: A Human Rights Perspective. 2014–first half of 2016.” Report by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, Moscow, 2016. http://memohrc.org/sites/default/files/doklad_severnyy_kavkaz_-_angl.pdf, 76.

  11.  Ibid., 21–24.

  12.  “Like Walking A Minefield: Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia’s Chechen Republic,” Human Rights Watch, August 30, 2016, https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/08/30/walking-minefield/vicious-crackdown-critics-russias-chechen-republic.

  13.  Elena Milashina, “Ubiistvo chesti” Novaia gazeta, April 3, 2017, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/01/71983-ubiystvo-chesti; Andrew Kramer, “‘They Starve You. They Shock You.’ Inside the Anti-Gay Program in Chechnya,” The New York Times, April 21, 2017.

  14.  Elena Milashine, V Chechne idut profilakticheskie raboty,” Novaia gazeta, April 24, 2017, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/24/72263-v-chechne-idut-profilakticheskie-raboty. Also see Amy Knight, “Putin’s Monster,” NYR Daily, May 19, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/19/putins-monster-ramzan-kadyrov/.

  15.  “The Family.”

  16.  Brian Whitmore, “Ramzan Kadyrov: The Kremlin’s Id,” RadioLiberty/RadioFreeEurope, January 19, 2016. http://www.rferl.org/content/the-kremlins-id/27497053.html.

  17.  Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 20.

  18.  “The Family.”

  19.  Ibid.

  20.  Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 24.

  21.  Ibid., 25.

  22.  Paul Bond, “Chechen Leader Asks Hilary Swank for Proof of Charitable Donation,” the Hollywood Reporter, February 16, 2012, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hilary-swank-ramzan-kadyrov-chechen-prime-minister-292049.

  23.  http://memohrc.org/sites/default/files/doklad_severnyy_kavkaz_-_angl.pdf, 34–35.

  24.  Tanya Lokshina, “Public Humiliation: Chechen Leader’s Simple Strategy to Control Social Media,” The Guardian, October 10, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/10/public-humiliation-chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-strategy-control-social-media.

  25.  Yashin, “A Threat to National Security,” 12.

  26.  Thomas Grove, “The Strongman of Instagram,” the Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-strongman-of-instagram-1472221224; “Like Walking a Minefield.”

  27.  Neil MacFarquhar, “A Warlord’s Cuddly Makeover, With a Nod to Donald Trump,” The New York Times, November 22, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-donald-trump.html.

  28.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BApvJo8tBVe/.

  29.  BBC News, February 1, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35459613.

  30.  The Moscow Times, February 1, 2016.

  31.  Ramzan Kadyrov, “Shakaly budut nakazany po zakonu Rossiiskoi Federatsii,” Izvestiia, January 18, 2016, http://izvestia.ru/news/601935.

  32.  Anna Nemtsova, “Putin’s Out-of-Control Creature in Chechnya,” Politico, February 2, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/how-putin-created-a-monster-in-chechnya-213583.

  33.  Whitmore, “Ramzan Kadyrov.”

  34.  Komsomol’skaia pravda, May 6, 2013, http://www.kp.ru/online/news/1432736/.

  35.  Instagram.com, May 17, 2015, https://www.instagram.com/p/2xw_OjCRsw/.

  36.  https://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/13/kadyrov_dadaev/.

  37.  Elena Milashina, “Prokliatie Ichkerii. Doklad Novoi Gazety,” Novaia gazeta, October 3, 2016, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2016/10/03/70025-proklyatie-ichkerii-doklad-novoy-gazety.

  38.  Ibid.

  39.  Ibid.

  40.  Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, “What Has Kadyrov Been Up To?” the Interpreter, August 26, 2016, http://www.interpretermag.com/what-has-kadyrov-been-up-to-quietly-cultivating-regional-and-kremlin-officials-now-a-meeting-with-putin/#14930.

  41.  Ibid.

  42.  MacFarquhar, “A Warlord’s Cuddly Makeover.”

  43.  Ekaterina Sokrianskaia, “Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Program,” The New York Times, May 3, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/opinion/chechnyas-anti-gay-pogrom.html?_r=0.

  44.  Neil MacFarquhar, “Putin Dismisses Sergei Ivanov, a Longtime Ally, as Chief of Staff, New York Times, August 12, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/europe/sergei-ivanov-putin-russia.html?_r=0.

  45.  Andrei Sukhotin, “Istochnik: Uliukaev Ne Bral Deneg V Ruki,” Novaia gazeta, November 15, 2016, https://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/2016/11/15/126584-istochnik-ulyukaev-ne-bral-deneg-v-ruki; http://carnegie.ru/commentary/?fa=66244.

  46.  http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/1211633/sechin-took-part-in-ulyukayev-sting.

  47.  MacFarquhar, “Putin Dismisses Sergei Ivanov.”

  48.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwlk7_GF9g&t=441s.

  49.  Shaun Walker, “Alexei Navalny on Putin’s Russia: ‘All autocractic regimes come to an end,’” The Guardian, April 29, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/alexei-navalny-on-putins-russia-all-autocratic-regimes-come-to-an-end.

  Afterword

    1.  Michael Gordon, “Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump,” The New York Times, February 14, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?_r=0.

    2.  Anna Nemtsova, “Is Putin as Popular as Trump Says?” the Daily Beast, September 9, 2016, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/09/is-putin-as-popular-as-trump-says.

    3.  Stratfor Market Watch, January 31, 2017, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-is-a-mess-the-poverty-rate-is-soaring-and-only-10-of-85-regions-are-financially-stab
le-2017-01-31.

    4.  See Amy Knight, “Why is Putin So Popular?” Prospect, December 2014, http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/why-is-putin-so-popular.

    5.  Transcript of interview with Trump, The New York Times, April 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-new-york-times-transcript.html

    6.  Gardiner Harris, “Tillerson Warns Russia on Syria, Saying Assad Era is ‘Coming to an End,’” The New York Times, April 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/world/europe/russia-syria-rex-tillerson.html

    7.  Neil MacFarquhar and Alison Smale, “Angela Merkel Presses Vladimir Putin on Treatment of Gays and Jehovah’s Witnesses,” The New York Times, May 2, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/europe/merkel-putin-russia.html?_r=0.

    8.  Alison Smale and Steven Erlanger, “Merkel, After Discordant G-7 Meeting, Is Looking Past Trump,” The New York Times, May 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/europe/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html.

    9.  “Illusions vs Reality: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 9, 2017, http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/09/illusions-vs-reality-twenty-five-years-of-u.s.-policy-toward-russia-ukraine-and-eurasia-pub-67859.

  10.  Sheera Frenkel, “The New Handbook for Cyberwarfare is Being Written By Russia,” BuzzFeed, March 19, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-new-handbook-for-cyberwar-is-being-written-by-russia?utm_term=.vuBNLxo4w#.vfLgLKeDz.

  11.  Ford, Political Murder, 388.

  INDEX

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  Abdurakhmanov, Viskan

  Abramovich, Roman

  Adamov, Evgenii

  Aeroflot case

  Agarev, Evgenii

  Akishin, Vitalii

  Albats, Yevgenia

  Albekov, Rizvan

  Alexeyeva, Lyudmila

  Allakhverdov, Mikhail (“Misha”)

  Amis, Martin

  Arifdzhanov, Rustam

  al-Assad, Bashir

  Attew, Dean

  Aulov, Nikolai

  Baburova, Anastasia

  Baisarov, Movladi

  Bakhaev, Khamzat

  Barnes, Robert

  Basaev, Shamil

  Bashaev, Alkhazur

  Bastrykin, Aleksandr

  Beketov, Mikhail

  Berezovsky, Boris

  Abramovich relationship with

  Chechnya rebels ties to

  civil liberty initiatives of

  corruption and murder unveiled by

  coup plan of

  as criminal suspect

  death of

  early life and career of

  financial troubles of

  Litvinenko, A., relationship with

  Lugovoy relationship with

  Putin relationship with

  Beria, Lavrenty

  blackmail

  Bolsheviks

  bombings. See also Boston Marathon bombings

  bombings, apartment (1999)

  FSB ties to

  investigation/blame for

  Kremlin and public response to

  prior knowledge of

  Borisov, Mikhail

  Bortnikov, Aleksandr

  Boston Marathon bombings. See also Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar; Tsarnaev, Tamerlan

  Brezhnev

  Britain

  Budanov, Iurii

  Bush, George W.

  Carrère d’Encausse, Hélène

  Caryl, Christian

  Chaika, Yuri

  Chechnya. See also Kadyrov, Ramzan

  Berezovsky ties to rebels in

  funding of

  human-rights abuses in

  media controlled in

  murder/terrorism blamed on

  support and coverage of

  Cherkesov, Viktor

  Chubais, Anatolii

  CIA

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Hillary

  Comey, James

  Communist Party

  corruption and scandal

  exposure of

  FSB ties to

  of Kremlin/Putin

  counterterrorism

  Crimea

  cyberwarfare

  Dadaev, Zaur

  Dagestan

  Dekkushev, Adam

  Dobrokhotov, Roman

  Dobrovskii, Sergei

  Dolakov, Magomed

  Dorenko, Sergei

  Dubov, Iulii

  Dubovik, Igor

  Dubrovka Theater hostage crisis (2002)

  Dukuzov, Kazbek

  Dunlop, John

  Duritskaya, Anna

  Dyachenko, Tatiana

  Edelev, Arkady

  elections

  elite

  Eskerkhanov, Tamerlan

  Estemirova, Natalia

  exile community

  FBI

  Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN)

  Federal Protection Service (FSO)

  Federal Security Service (FSB)

  corruption and scandal ties to

  Dubrovka hostage crisis role of

  establishment and authority of

  Litvinenko, A., and

  murders connected to

  Nemtsov murder and

  1999 bombings role of

  poison access of

  on Starovoitova, G., murder

  on Tsarnaev, T.

  Fedosov, Oleg

  Felshtinsky, Yuri

  Filippov, Dmitrii

  Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

  Fradkov, Mikhail

  Frenkel, Aleksei

  FSB. See Federal Security Service

  Gaidar, Egor

  Gaitukaev, Loma-Ali

  Galeotti, Mark

  Gannushkina, Svetlana

  Gerasimov, Dmitrii

  Geremeev, Ruslan

  Glushchenko, Mikhail

  Glushkov, Nikolai

  Goldberg, Paul

  Goldfarb, Alex

  Golovlev, Vladimir

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gorky, Maxim

  Grachev, Pavel

  Grigor’ev, Aleksandr

  Gubashev, Shadid and Anzor

  Gusinsky, Vladimir

  Harding, Luke

  homosexuality

  human-rights abuses. See also Chechnya

  human-rights work

  Iakovlev, Vladimir

  Iamadaev brothers

  Ilyukhin, Viktor

  investigation/trial. See specific cases and individuals

  Investigative Committee (SK)

  ISIS

  Israilov, Imar

  Iushenkov, Sergei

  Ivanov, Sergei

  Ivanov, Viktor

  jihadists

  journalists

  Kadyrov, Akhmat

  Kadyrov, Ramzan

  murders tied to

  Putin relationship with

  Kalugin, Oleg

  Kamenev, Lev

  Kara-Murza, Vladimir

  Kartashov, Magomed

  Kasparov, Garry

  Kasyanov, Mikhail

  Keating, William

  KGB

  Khadzhikurbanov, Sergei

  Khasis, Evgeniia

  Khattab

  Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

  Khokhlov, Nikolai

  Khokholkov, Igor

  Kholodov, Dmitry

  Khrushchev

  Kirienko, Sergei

  Kirov, Sergei

  Klebnikov, Paul

  Kodanev, Mikhail

  Kolchin, Iurii

  Kolokoltsev, Vladimir

  Korobov, Igor

  Korzhakov, Aleksandr

  Kovalev, Sergei

  Kovalev
Commission

  Kovtun, Dmitrii

  Kozlov, Andrei

  Kremlin. See specific organizations and individuals

  Krymshamkhalov, Iusuf

  Kryshtanovskaia, Olga

  Kulakov, Fyodor

  Kumarin, Vladimir

  Kungaeva, Elza

  Kursk affair

  Lapin, Sergei

  Latynina, Iuliia

  Leliavin, Viacheslav

  Lenin

  Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

  Liberal Russia party

  Linkov, Ruslan

  Listev, Vladislav

  Litvinenko, Alexander

  Berezovsky relationship with

  early life and FSB career of

  exile of

  Lugovoy relationship with

  murder and corruption exposed by

  murder of

  on Putin

  Litvinenko, Marina

  Litvinenko, Valter

  Lokshina, Tanya

  Lugovoy, Andrei

  Magnitsky, Sergei

  Magnitsky Law

  Main Intelligence Administration (GRU)

  Makhmudov brothers

  Makhutdinov, Ruslan

  Manevich, Mikhail

  Markelov, Stanislav

  Markov, Georgii

  Martynyuk, Leonid

  Masherov, Pyotr

  Mazurov, Kirill

  McCain, John

  media. See also journalists

  Medvedev, Dmitri

  Melikian, Gennadii

  Memorial

  Mercader, Ramon

  Merkel, Angel

  MI6

  Mikhailov, Alexander

  Mikhoels, Solomon

  Milashina, Elena

  Milov, Vladimir

  Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)

  Mitrokhin, Sergei

 

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