Death of a Dissident - Alex Goldfarb [175]
Yegorov, Nikolai, 63
Yeltsin, Boris, 32-34, 195, 204, 207, 230
Aeroflot reorganization and, 141
Berezovsky and, 66-67, 123, 156, 174
Chechen conflict and, 47-48, 51, 54, 76-77, 85, 87-88, 90-91, 92, 94, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 189, 195, 289
Chechen kidnappings and, 153
Chubais and, 63, 76-77, 97-98, 116-17, 123, 126, 345
Communist coup attempt and, 240
election of 1996 and, 52, 60, 62-63, 64-68, 74-77, 78, 80-82
election of 1999 and, 192
election of 2000 and, 164, 172, 174
“family” of advisers to, 155, 161, 171, 201-2, 272
FSB and, 3-4
health of, 64, 97-98, 100, 147, 155, 156, 158, 186
Korzhakov fired by, 81, 126
Lebed fired by, 99
Litvinenko’s unsent memorandum to, 39
Primakov and, 144-45, 155, 156, 161, 172
privatization scandals and, 32, 34, 51, 53, 109, 110-11, 116, 123
Putin and, 3-4, 134-35, 156-59, 174, 177-78, 180-82, 195, 202
Russian economic crisis and, 139, 140
Skuratov scandal and, 157-58, 161
Tatarstan and, 87
Trofimov and, 73-74
“young reformers” in administration of, 111, 123, 155, 229-30
Yumashev fired by, 147
Yeltsin (Dyachenko), Tatyana, 33, 111, 144, 155, 171, 207
election of 1996 and, 65, 76, 80-81
election of 2000 and, 172, 181
loss of influence of, 204
Skuratov and, 161
Yesenin, Sergey, 260
Yuhanova, Nadezhda, 197
Yumashev, Valentin, 33, 62, 65, 75, 76, 80, 111, 126, 144, 147, 171
election of 2000 and, 181
Primakov and, 155
Putin and, 134-35, 198
Yuschenko, Viktor, 316, 320
Yushenkov, Sergei, 240, 241, 306
Moscow bombings investigation and, 249-50, 257-59, 262-64, 266, 281
Moscow theater siege investigation and, 274-75
murder of, 259-60, 275, 277-79, 348
Putin’s praise of, 277
U.S. trip of, 257-59, 273
Zakayev, Akhmed, 85-87, 280, 298
arrest and attempted extradition of, 291-96, 303-5
Basayev and, 312-13
Chechen oil pipeline reopening and, 113
Chechen peace accord and, 95, 100-103
deterioration of Russian-Chechen relations and, 151-54
Dudayev assassination and, 91, 92
extradition fight of, 299, 300, 301
as FSB target, 311, 328-29
Litvinenko and, 92-94, 287, 298, 305, 311, 317, 322-24, 325, 326, 328-29, 331-33, 339, 344
Litvinenko’s conversion to Islam and, 332-33
Moscow theater siege investigation and, 275
Politkovskaya murder and, 328-29
Raduyev and, 107-8
Rybkin and, 288-90, 294, 295, 307
second Chechen war and, 195-96, 260, 287, 312
Zarakhovich, Yuri, 251-52
Zhiguli automobiles, 30
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir, 63, 78, 194
Zinaida (Marina Litvinenko’s mother), 245
Zyuganov, Gennady, 33, 63-64, 69-71, 77, 78, 177
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ALEX GOLDFARB, PH.D., was a dissident scientist who left Russia in the 1970s, joining the faculty of Columbia University. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he went to work for U.S. philanthropist George Soros directing charitable initiatives in Russia. He befriended Alexander Litvinenko in the 1990s. They became close when Goldfarb accompanied the ex-spy and his family in their dramatic escape to freedom in 2000. Goldfarb later helped Litvinenko work on his memoirs and supported his efforts to expose the abuses of the newly ascendant FSB. Goldfarb is currently the executive director of the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, set up by Boris Berezovsky as an umbrella group for human-rights activists.
MARINA LITVINENKO first met Alexander at her thirty-first birthday party, in 1993, when he was a young officer in the FSB. They married and she gave birth to a son soon thereafter. In 2000, the three of them sought asylum in the United Kingdom, and she continues to live in London with her twelve-year-old son.
Alexander (“Sasha”) Litvinenko with his mother in Nalchik, 1966. (Courtesy of the author)
The wedding of Sasha and Marina Litvinenko, October 14, 1994. (Courtesy of the author)
Sasha, Marina, and Tolik celebrate their first New Year’s Eve in London. (Courtesy of the author)
Sasha at Counterintelligence school. (Courtesy of the author)
Sasha,