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organized crime in, 26, 30-31, 35-37, 39-41, 119, 282, 297

polonium production in, 337-38

prison system in, 4, 170, 203

privatization and, 29-31, 32-37, 46, 47-49, 51-57, 60-61, 62-63, 65, 110-11, 115-16, 279

provinces in, 87

Soros prison health project in, 4, 203

stock market in, 63

Supreme Soviet of, 33, 47

tax system in, 32, 53, 63, 139, 154

telecom industry in, 115-16

“Russian Legion,” 96, 98, 99

Russian Navy, 110

Kursk disaster and, 208-12

Russian Society for Science and Education, 56

Russian TV International (RTVI), 284

Ryazan, Russia, 190-91, 196-98, 217, 218, 247, 249, 250, 254, 291

Rybakov, Yuli, 249, 250, 257, 265-66

Rybkin, Ivan, 134, 151

election of 2004 and, 290, 306-9, 315

as NSC head, 99, 100, 101, 103, 106, 107, 109, 112, 113, 306

Zakayev and, 288-90, 294, 295, 307

Sadulayev, Abdul-Halim, 312

Safire, William, 63-64

St. Mary’s Hospital, 320

St. Petersburg, Russia:

opposition demonstrations in, 347

as polonium export point, 337

Putin in, 134-35

Sakharov, Andrei, 233, 239, 242, 271

Sakharov Museum and Civic Center, 239

Samara, Russia, 337

Samashki, Chechnya, 24

Sarov nuclear facility, 337

Saudi Arabia, 152

Savostyanov, Evgeny, 127

Scaramella, Mario, 318, 339, 340-41, 342

Scheglov, German, 132, 146

Schekochihin, Yuri, 348

Berezovsky disliked by, 133

Blowing Up Russia serialization and, 246

Chechen peace movement and, 290

death of, 279, 281

as Duma member, 133, 198, 246, 263

FSB investigation of, 133-34

as journalist, 133-34, 158, 196, 246

Moscow bombing investigation and, 263, 281

Ryazan bomb scare and, 198

Skuratov scandal and, 158

Schelenkov, Andrei, 246

School 101 (of KGB), 179

Science Ministry, Russian, 50

Scotland Yard, 302, 323-24, 325, 331, 335, 338, 339, 340, 343, 344

Seleznyov, Gennady, 265-66

Senate, U.S., Moscow bombings investigation and, 259, 283

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 152, 248, 256

Moscow bombings as analagous to, 253-54, 258

Serbia, 159 Sergei (Aliona Morozova’s boyfriend), 255

Sergei (bodyguard), 112

Seymour Menzies Solicitors, 243

Shaimiyev, Mintimer, 87

Shaposhnikov, Evgeny, 141

Shaw, Peter, 297

Shebalin, Viktor, 126

as whistle-blower, 130-31, 145-46

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 271, 290

Shugaeva, Ekaterina, 337

Shvets, Yuri, 342-43

Sibneft, 54-57, 110, 111, 154

Skoropupov, Vladimir, 237

Skuratov, Yuri, 244

Berezovsky and, 146, 154-55, 157-58, 161, 186

Litvinenko prosecution and, 160, 165, 171

Sobchak prosecution and, 135

URPO investigation and, 146

Sleptsovskaya, Chechnya, 241

Slonim, Masha, 180

Smith, Adam, 48

Sobchak, Anatoly, 135, 172

Sokolenko, Vladislav, 341

Solntsevo gang, 30, 39

Solovyov, Ivan, 303-4, 305

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 241

Sontag, Susan, 294

Soros, George, 46-49, 60

Bank of England and, 47, 50

Berezovsky and, 46-47, 49, 50, 51, 55-56, 64, 98, 109-12, 114-15, 116-17, 215-16, 229-31, 346, 347

Chernomyrdin’s meeting with, 69-71

Chubais and, 47-49, 116-17

election of 1996 and, 63-64, 69-71

Gaidar’s anti-Berezovsky letter to, 346, 347

Gazprom deal and, 109-12, 114-15

as philanthropist, 48, 49-50, 56

pound devaluation and, 47, 50

Putin and, 231

Russian economic crisis and, 138-40

Russian Internet program of, 69-71

Russian prison health project of, 4, 203

Russian privatization and, 48-49, 51

Sibneft deal and, 55-56 Svyazinvest deal and, 115-16, 229-30

Yavlinsky and, 60, 63

Zyuganov and, 69-71

Soros Foundation, 50, 106, 110

Soskovets, Oleg, 52, 62

election of 1996 and, 63, 66, 67, 76, 81

Soviet Union, 22, 32, 45, 48, 49, 52, 60, 141

dissident movement in, 233, 238-39, 242-43, 271

dissolution of, 70, 85, 86, 87, 241, 300-301

SP-117 (drug), 308

Spain, 297

Special Tasks (Sudoplatov), 124

Spetsnaz (Russian special forces), 310, 342

Stalin, Joseph, 45, 76, 94, 113, 164,