Ottoman Empire, the, 13

P

Pacific Fleet, 61, 65

Palestine, 83

Palestine Liberation Organization, 82

Palestinian Authority (PA), 83

Panetta, Leon, 93

Papua-New Guinea, 98

“peace dividend,” 24

Pekhtin, Vladimir, 72–73

Peking, 55

Pentagon, the, 62, 120

People’ s Daily, 56, 62

People’s Republic of China (PRC), 54

peregruzka, 115

perestroika, 17

perezagruzka, 115

Peru, 17

“phased adaptive approach,” 96, 117–18

pluralism, 68, 70

Pokrovsky, Vadim, 21

Poland, 76, 117. See alsoOdessa-Brody pipeline

“political nationalists,” 34

Ponomaryov, Lev, 74

Pora Valit, 26

post-Soviet space, 6, 8, 37, 62, 70, 85, 87, 106, 121

Potemkin village, 70

precious metals, 60

Primakov, Yevgeny, 82–83

Primorskii Krai, 54, 97

Primorye, 58

Public Committee on Human Rights, 74

Pussy Riot, 74

Putin, Vladimir, 7, 35, 37, 51, 70, 73–74, 81–82, 95, 101, 103, 105–7

Asia and, 55–56, 61, 63–64, 97

authoritarian regime of, 8, 22, 35–36, 71–72

counterterrorism and, 44

demographic decline of Russia and, 23–24

Far East and, 53–54, 60

geopolitics and, 9, 121

migration from Russia and, 23

military and, 8

nationalistic ideas and, 34

political candidates and, 69

reforms of, 38

United Russia and, 36

United States and, 118, 120

weakening popularity and power of, 67–68, 73, 80

Q

Qaradawi, Yusuf, 91

Qing Dynasty, 55

R

Rakhimov, Murtaza, 49

“reset,” 10, 115–19, 125

RIA Novosti, 23

Rodina(Motherland), 34

Rogozin, Dmitry, 34, 106–7

“Rose Revolution,” 112

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 83

Russia, 24, 104, 106–114. See also Foundations of Russian Federation Policy in the Arctic until 2020 and Beyond, The

AIDS crisis and, 10, 14, 21

Asia and, 94–101

China and, 6, 11–12

demographics of, 11, 13–20, 24–25

Duma and, 36

economy of, 25

Far East of, 6, 53–65

implosion of, 3, 6, 9, 12, 115–26

Iran and, 7

migration from, 22–23, 25–26

Muslims and, 11, 27–39, 81–92, 114

post-Soviet, 10, 21, 28, 104

Putin and, 8–9, 22, 35, 38, 44, 53, 67–80, 103

radical Islam and, 2

Soviet Union and, 7–8, 22, 42, 108

Stalin and, 9

United States and, 10, 12

Yeltsin and, 8

wars and, 42–52

Russian Federation, the, 42, 71, 95, 107, 109–10, 114, 117. See alsoRussia

Arctic and, 79, 165–84

China and, 59

HIV/AIDS and, 21

Islamic radicalism in, 42, 91

Muslims in, 30, 39, 82

national security strategy, 185–240

natural gas and, 76

NGOs active in, 70

non-Slavs within, 33

population of, 10, 14, 20, 29, 125

territory of, 6, 122

upheaval of, 10, 12

United States and, 119–20

Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, 49

Russian Islamic University, 46

Russian Orthodox Church, the (Russian Orthodoxy), 28, 73–75, 109–10, 123

Russian Question, The, 107

Russian Supreme Court, 48

Russkiyemovement, 34

S

S-400 air defense system, 65

Saakashvili, Mikheil, 112–13

Sakhalin Island (Sakhalin), 60, 97, 99

Saudi Arabia, 18, 30, 75

Seoul, 97, 117

separatism, separatist, 5, 42, 49, 85, 124, 186, 192, 208

September 1999

bombings, 44

Serdyukov, Anatoly, 72

shadow economy, 32

Shah, Apoorva, 18

shale gas, 77

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), 7, 62

Shangri-La, 98

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 112

Shi’a, 51, 91, 123. See alsoIslam

Shui-bian, Chen, 62

Siberia, 48, 54, 65, 96, 100–1, 219

“sick man of Europe,” 13

siloviki, 82

Singapore, 98

Sino-Russian, 55, 61, 63, 65

Slavic, Slavs, 5–6, 28–29, 32–33, 52, 106–7, 109, 114, 124

Sochi, 45

softwood lumber, 60

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 107, 123

Southern District, 32

“southern rim,” 85

South Korea, 94, 97, 117

South Ossetia, 112–13

SOVA, 34

Soviet Academy of Sciences, 16

Soviet Union, the, 6–7, 9, 12, 16–17, 20, 26, 28, 30, 42, 49, 52, 82, 84, 88, 99, 106, 108, 112, 121, 124–25

Spartak, 33

Stalin, Joseph, 9, 22, 28, 125

Stevastopol, 111

Steyn, Mark, 15, 125

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 87

St. Petersburg University, 103

strategic culture, 14

Strategy 2020, 64

Sufi, 45

Suleymanov, Rais, 49

Sunni, 91–92, 123. See alsoIslam

Sviridov, Yegor, 33

Syria, 7, 88–89, 91, 96

T

Taiwan, 61–62

Taiwan Strait, 62

Tanzania, 91

Tartus, 88

Tatar Islam, 47, 52. See alsoIslam

Tatarstan, 32, 46–49, 51, 53

Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, 47

Tbilisi, 113. See alsoBaku-Tbilisi Caspian oil route

Tehran, 84–85

Third Reich, 125

Tokyo, 99–100

Tonga, 17

“total fertility rate” (TFR), 14–16

Trans-Baikal regions, 60

Transdniester region, 106

Treaty of Aigun, 55

Treaty on Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation (Treaty on Friendship and Good Neighborliness), 55, 109

Treaty of Nerchinsk, 55

Treaty of Peking, 55

Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 1–2

Tsarnaev, Tamerlan, 1–2

Tulip Revolution, 37

Tunis, 90

Tunisia, 89

Turkey, 15, 30

Turkmenistan, 15

Tuvalu, 17

“twenty-first century nuclear arsenal,” 8

U

Ufa, 49

Ukraine, 6, 21, 37, 76, 88, 106, 108, 110–11, 114, 209. See alsoOdessa-Brody pipeline

Umarov, Doku, 47

umma, 38

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 2, 10, 15–17, 19, 24, 28, 42, 73, 75, 82, 88, 99, 107–8, 123, 125, 166

United Nations (UN), 29, 62, 83, 113, 124, 194, 233–34

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 79

United Nations Development Programme, 32

United Nations Security Council, 124, 194

United Russia, 36–37, 68–69, 72

United States, the, 3, 9, 30, 194

allies in the West of, 12

“Arctic Five” nation of, 78

Asia-Pacific and, 94, 124

China and, 61–62

Cold War and, 17

cooperation with Russia and, 118–19, 197, 234

economy of, 24

Europe and, 95

Georgia and, 112

immigrants in, 33

Magnitsky and, 119

migrant labor force of, 33

Moscow and, 6

NATO and, 7, 61, 87

Russia’s implosion and, 12

Russia’s “main enemy” as, 10, 105

shale gas and, 77

“total fertility rate” of, 15

Western powers and, 6, 110

United States Congress, 117, 119

Unity Party, 68

Ural Mountains, 11

U.S. Census Bureau, 15

U.S. Department of Energy, 76

U.S. Geological Survey, 78

USS Abraham Lincoln, 44

Ustinov, Mark, 33

V

Valdai Discussion Club, 94, 96

Valentine’s Day, 24

Velikhov, Yevgeny, 86

Verkhovsky, Alexander, 34

Viagra, 24

Vishnevsky, Anatoly, 15–16

Vladivostok, 97

Volga region, 28–29, 47, 116

Volgodonsk, 44

“Vostok-2010,” 65

W

Wahhabis, Wahhabism, 46–47, 49

Walking Together, 35

War on Terror, 42, 116

Washington, D.C., 6, 10, 12, 14, 17, 29, 76, 116–17, 119–20, 125

West, the, 2, 6, 8–10, 12–14, 18–20, 68, 81, 87–88, 90, 95, 106, 116, 120, 124–26

We Will Reclaim Russia for Ourselves, 106

White House, the, 96, 118–19

“wild east,” 8

World War I (First World War), 13

World War II (Second World War), 99, 125

X

xenophobes, xenophobia, 11, 33, 35, 74, 123, 192