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Scientific Hematological Center in, 237-38
theater siege in, 270-71, 273-76, 284, 287, 290, 291-92, 300, 348
White House in, 70, 74, 102, 181, 195
Moscow Cardiological Center, 100
Most-Bank raid (1994), 60-61, 65
Musa (Dudayeva bodyguard), 92, 93
Muslims, Islam, 86, 87, 90, 92, 93, 101, 106, 134, 144, 151-54, 177, 186-88, 190, 215, 253-54, 272, 293, 312, 313, 332
Nalchik, Russia, 21, 22
National Security Council (NSC), Russian, 127, 147, 177
Berezovsky appointed to, 99
Berezovsky fired from, 123
Lebed named head of, 78
Lebed’s “Russian Legion” plan for, 96, 98, 99
Putin named head of, 159
Russian-Chechen oil pipeline reopening deal and, 112-14
Rybkin as head of, 99, 100, 101, 103, 106, 107, 109, 112, 113
National Security Council (NSC), U.S., 4, 130, 273
natural gas, 109-12
Nekrasov, Andrei, 283-84, 286, 329
Nemtsov, Boris, 111, 115, 123, 164, 177, 194, 294-95
New York Review of Books, 215-16
New York Times:
Berezovsky assassination attempt reported by, 30
Lugovoy and Kovtun interview in, 344
Moscow bombings reportage by, 249
Zyuganov reportage by, 63-64
Nikita (Berezovsky associate), 300
Nixon, Richard M., 335
Nizhny Tagil, Russia, 284, 286
NKVD, 124, 178
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), 239-40, 249, 274, 309-10, 311-12
Norilsk Nickel, 111
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 151, 160, 187
Novaya Gazeta, 133-34, 158, 270, 279
Blowing Up Russia excerpted in, 246
Moscow theater siege investigation and, 275-76
Politkovskaya’s writings in, 237, 305
Ryazan bomb scare reportage by, 196-98
Schekochihin’s writings in, 133-34, 158
Novodvorskaya, Valeria, 308
Novye Atagi, Chechnya, 105
NTV television network, 34, 52
Chechen conflict and, 61, 88, 117, 236-37, 305
Dorenko’s broadcast on, 235
election of 1996 and, 64, 67, 77, 79, 80-81
election of 1999 and, 192
election of 2000 and, 172-73
government crackdown on, 173, 205, 208, 213, 233, 238, 249
Kukly show on, 60, 61
Kursk disaster and, 209, 211
Ryazan bomb scare and, 198, 205, 249
oil and gas industry, 53, 54-57, 71, 109-12, 138-39, 319
oligarchs, 3, 41, 48-49, 60, 65, 68, 74, 78, 110, 111, 116-17, 123, 172, 211-12, 213, 229-30, 231, 249, 265
rise of, 52-57
robber barons compared with, 45-57, 115
operative detectives (opers), 23-24
Orange Revolution (in Ukraine), 285, 307, 315-16, 347
ORT (Russian Public Television), 33-37, 49, 51, 54, 55, 57, 77, 80, 81, 113, 141, 319
Chechen conflict and, 90, 101
election of 1999 and, 234
Kursk disaster and, 209, 210, 211, 234
Lebed firing and, 99
Litvinenko confession taped by, 131, 132, 137
Russian government crackdown on, 154, 210, 233-36, 237
Ostankino TV, 34
Ovchinsky, Vladimir, 39, 40
Ozersk nuclear facility, 337
Pacifico, Don, 245
Pale Horse, The (Christie), 320
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Third Viscount, 245
Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, 260-62, 269, 290
Parfitt, Tom, 329
Parliament, Russian, 158, 159, 191, 240, 263 see also Duma, Russian; Federation Council, Russian
Party of Peace, 138
Party of War, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 243-44, 287
Patarkatsishvili, Badri, 235, 236, 237
Patrushev, Nikolai, 196-97, 252
Pauline (Menzies secretary), 244-45
Pavel (FSB informant), 300-302, 303, 321
Pervomaiskoye, Russia, 59, 71, 88-91, 93, 107
Peter I (the Great), Czar of Russia, 62, 76
Pinochet, Augusto, 208, 243
Pinyaev, Alexei, 197-98
plutonium, 343
Podolsk gang, 39
police corruption, 31, 35, 41, 61, 119
Politkovskaya, Anna, 237
Moscow theater siege investigation and, 275-76
murder of, 316-17, 321, 328, 329, 348
Zakayev case and, 305
polonium, 331-32, 335-42, 343
commercial use of, 336
half-life of, 337
Litvinenko’s estimated exposure to, 336
production of, 337-38
Ponkin, Andrei, 125-26, 130-31, 132, 145-46, 168
as Litvinenko informer, 219
Ponomarev, Lev, 310
Potanin, Vladimir, privatization and, 110-11, 115-16
Primakov, Evgeny, 63,