Introduction
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2. Sarah Kendzior, “Reclaiming Ma’naviyat,” in Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics, ed. Madeleine Reeves (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).
3. Human Rights Watch, “Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan,” March 2004, https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/uzbekistan0304/2.htm#_Toc65397893.
4. Sarah Kendzior, “Kim Kardashistan: A Violent Dictator’s Daughter on a Quest for Pop Stardom,” The Atlantic, August 8, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/kim-kardashistan-a-violent-dictators-daughter-on-a-quest-for-pop-stardom/260885/.
5. Betsy Woodruff and Tim Mak, “Top Trump Aide Led the ‘Torturers’ Lobby,’” Daily Beast, April 13, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby.
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8. “Дональд Трамп: Хватит придираться к России!” [“Donald Trump: Stop Picking on Russia!”], RT, February 11, 2014, https://russian.rt.com/article/22064.
9. Sarah Kendzior, “Donald Trump’s bromance with Vladimir Putin underscores an unsettling truth about the two leaders,” Quartz, August 19, 2016, https://qz.com/761656/donald-trumps-bromance-with-vladimir-putin-underscores-an-unsettling-truth-about-the-two-leaders/.
10. The Moscow Project, “Bailed Out By Russia,” 2019, https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-chapter/chapter-1/; The Moscow Project, “Banks Refused to Lend to Trump, Citing ‘The Donald Risk,’” 2019, https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/banks-refuse-lend-trump-citing-donald-risk/.
11. Ed Caeser, “Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal,” New Yorker, August 22, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/deutsche-banks-10-billion-scandal; Allan Smith, “Trump’s Long and Winding History with Deutsche Bank Could Now Be at the Center of Robert Mueller’s Investigation,” Business Insider, December 8, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-deutsche-bank-mueller-2017-12.
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13. Sarah Kendzior, “How State Politicians Are Quietly Working to Steal the 2016 Election,” Quartz, May 20, 2016, https://qz.com/687408/how-local-politicians-are-quietly-working-to-steal-the-us-presidential-election/.
14. Sarah Kendzior, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America,” Foreign Policy, August 3, 2016, https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/03/welcome-to-donald-trumps-america/.
15. Sarah Kendzior, “Be Afraid: Trump May Have Bought the Fourth Estate,” Globe and Mail, September 9, 2016, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/be-afraid-trump-may-have-bought-the-fourth-estate/article31789981/.
16. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007).
17. Sarah Kendzior, “We Are Heading Into Dark Times—This Is How to Be Your Own Light,” De Correspondent, November 18, 2016, https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6.
18. Anna Politkovskaya, A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 216.