“global commons,” 79, 165

Global Financial Integrity (GFI), 72

“global zero,” 9

Goble, Paul, 30

Golts, Alexander, 65

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 17

“Great Patriotic War,” 125

Greece, 95

Gref, German, 77

gross domestic product (GDP), 25, 72, 214, 240

H

Hagel, Chuck, 118

Hahn, Gordon, 31, 38, 49

hajj, 30

Hamas, 83

Heilongjiang province, 54

Heritage Foundation, the, 52

Higher School of Economics, 33

Hitler, Adolf, 125

HIV/AIDS, 20–21. See alsoAIDS

Hizb-ut Tahrir (HuT), 48

Hoffer, Eric, 75

Huntington, Samuel, 110

Hussein, Saddam, 82, 84

hydrocarbons, 60, 79, 168, 174

I

Independent Institute for Social Policy, 50

Indian Ocean, 93

Indonesia, 18

Ingush, Ingushetia, 28–29, 31–32, 41, 44

Institute of Demography, Migration, and Regional Development, 18

Institute for Scientific Information, 16

“intellectual war,” 50

Interfax, 77

Interior Ministry, 45

“internal abroad,” 50

International AIDS Society, 21

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 23

International Space Station, 118

Iran

ballistic missile threats and, 95

dictatorship in, xii

nuclear ambitions and, 7, 84–87

“orthodox Iran,” 73, 75

Russian alliance with, 105

Shi’a Muslim state of, 91

Iraq, 82, 84–85, 193

Ishayev, Victor, 64

Islam, xii, 47, 75, 82, 91–92, 124. See alsoShi’a; Sunni; Tatar Islam

Afghanistan and, 117

Caucasus Emirate and, 41

Chechnya and, 43–44

North Caucasus and, 122

profession of, 27–28

radical, xi, 2, 11, 38–39, 42, 45–46, 48–52

Russia and, 28, 30–31

Tatarstan and, 123

Islamic fundamentalism, 47

Islamic Republic of Iran, 85–86, 88, 94

“Islamic state,” 82

Islamism, 45, 51–52

Istanbul, 30, 87

Ittifak, 48

“Ivanov Doctrine,” 109

Ivanov, Sergei, 98, 109

J

Japan, 15, 53, 94, 97, 99–100, 105

Jewish Autonomous Region, 54, 58

jihad, 43, 82

jihadi, jihadism, jihadist, 6, 38, 44, 47

Jintao, Hu, 63

Jordan, 43–44, 87

Judaism, 75

Justice Ministry, 70

K

Kabardino-Balkaria, 31–32

Kaliningrad, 106

Karachaevo-Cherkessia, 32

Karaganov, Sergei, 64, 97

Kasparov, Garry, 74

Kazakhstan, 18, 30, 106, 114, 209

Kazan, 46, 48

KGB, 82, 104

Khabarovsk, 54, 58, 65

Khakimov, Rafael, 47

Khamitov, Rustem, 49

Khasavyurt, 43

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 77

Kiev, 110–11

Kirill II, 73

Klepach, Andrey, 25

Kogas, 97

Kokoshin, Andrei, 86

komunalki, 19

Korea, Koreans, 53

Kozyrev, Andrei, 83

Krasnoyarsk, 59

Kremlin, the, 22, 26, 28, 35, 42, 45–46, 50, 54, 59–60, 69–76, 82, 91, 94, 103, 106–7

Arctic and, 78

Asia and, 99–100, 121–22

Belarus and, 108–9

centralization and, 36, 38

Chechnya and, 51, 83

counterterrorism and, 37, 44, 49, 52, 123

demographics and, 15, 23–24, 125–26

energy sector and, 77

Far East and, 64–65, 97

Far Right’s ascendance and, 34

geopolitical posturing of, 10

Georgia and, 112–13

Iraq and, 84

Muslims and, 11, 38, 92

Obama administration and, 96

resource control of, 11

Russian Orthodoxy and, 74–75

security forces of, 33

Syria and, 88–89

Ukraine and, 110–11

United Russia and, 68

Krupnov, Yuri, 18

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 81

Kudrin, Alexei, 103–4, 107

Kuril Islands (Kurils), 99

L

Lake Baikal, 100

Lavrov, Sergei, 95, 115

“Law on Combating Extremist Activity,” 37

Lebed, Alexandr, 63

Lenin, Vladimir, 22, 107

Levada Analytical Center, 33

Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), 34

Libya, 90

life expectancy, 17–18

Lipmann, Masha, 9

Literaturnaya Gazeta, 114

live births, 14–15, 19–20

Lomonosov Ridge, 79

Lukashenko, Alexander, 109–10

M

Madagascar, 18

Magnitsky Act, 119

Magnitsky, Sergei, 22, 119

Malashenko, Alexei, 50

Mali, 91

“managed democracy,” 71

Manezh Square, 33

Marshall, Andrew W., 120

Mecca, 30

Medvedev, Dmitry, 24, 46, 64, 67–69, 72, 78, 95, 99, 118, 185

Middle East, the, 7, 11, 30, 46, 82–83, 87–88, 91–92, 105, 193

Middle Volga region, 32, 219

Military-Industrial Commission, 107

Milli Mejlis, 48

Minsk, 109

“mission accomplished” speech, 44

Moldova, 106

Mongolia, 17

Moscow, 16, 22, 31, 33, 36, 41, 62, 73–75, 83, 90, 94, 96, 98, 107–14, 117–18, 165

Arctic and, 79–80

Boyz II Men, 24

Chechnya and, 31

China and, 55, 61, 63–65, 121–22

demographics and, 52

Eastern Europe and the Caucasus and, 6, 45

economy and, 71

energy and, 75–78

Far East and, 54, 57–58, 99–101

majority-Muslim republics and, 5, 30, 51, 82, 123

Middle East and, 84–86, 88–89, 91

“near abroad” and, 7, 87

race-related violence in, 34, 44

radical Islam and, 49–50

Putin and, 68, 82

Soviet-style politics and, 7

Ukraine and, 110–11

United States and, 10, 119–20

War on Terror, 116

Western governments and, 10, 17

Moscow’s Institute of Demography, 16, 18

Moscow State University, 98, 105

“mother’s capital,” 1

Mubarak, Hosni, 90

mufti, 27, 48

mujahideen, 43

Mukhetdinov, Damir-Khazrat, 38–39

“multilateralism,” 80, 100

“multi-polarity,” 55

Munich Security Conference, 95

Muslim, Muslims, 41–42, 92

background, 30

countries, 6

migrants, 30, 123

minority, 11, 38, 75, 91, 114

population, 30, 32, 52, 116, 123

regions, 86

religious regimes, 46

republics, 51

Russian, 28, 32, 38–39, 52

states, 91

underclass, 5, 32, 52

women, 29

world, 81–84, 91, 123

youth, 47

Muslim Brotherhood, 91

“Muslim Russia,” 28

Muslim Spiritual Directorate of European Russia, 38

Myanmar, 97

N

Nabucco natural gas pipeline, 76

Nashi, 34

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 118

nationalism, nationalist, 5, 33–35, 38, 43, 46, 49, 63, 104, 106, 111, 192, 206, 208

National Research University, 98

National Review, 125–26

National Security Council, 78, 89, 124

Nations of Dagestan, 45

natural gas, 25, 60, 76–78, 80, 97, 172

Navalny, Alexei, 74

near abroad, 7, 33, 85, 87, 109

Nemtsov, Boris, 75

New START, 117

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 108

NGOs, 46, 70

Nicaragua, 15

Niger, 14

Nixon, Richard, 120

Nizhny Novgorod, 59

Nord-Ost theater, 50

North Africa, 87, 90

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 7, 61–62, 87, 90, 95–96, 106, 116, 118, 191, 196

North Caucasus, 28–29, 31–32, 46, 51, 122

North Korea, 117

North Ossetia, 32

Norway, 78

Novaya Gazeta, 22

Novaya Silaparty, 34

O

Obama administration, 9, 93, 96, 115–18, 120, 125

Obama, Barack, 9, 115, 117, 119

Ochamshire, 113

Odessa-Brody pipeline, 76. See alsoPoland; Ukraine

Office of Drugs and Crime, 21

Office of Net Assessment (ONA), 120

Oktyabrsky, 47

Oman, 90

Open Government Initiative, 72

Orange Revolution, 37, 110

Oreshkin, Dmitry, 22

Organization of the Islamic Conference, 81

Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), 81

“orthodox Iran,” 75

Osnovi Geopolitike(The Foundations of Geopolitics), 104