Putin and the Oligarch by Sakwa, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction Chapter 1 • Rise of the Citizen Oligarch

Origins The birth of Russian capitalism From banks to oil The oligarchs are born ‘The experiment is over’ Corporate transformations Personal life

Chapter 2 • The State and the Oligarchs

Equidistance and uniformity Muddy waters Business and the state Between assaults From equidistance to subordination Opening Russia The revenge of the state

Chapter 3 • Why Khodorkovsky?

A state within the state Khodorkovsky’s defection The merger of Yukos and Sibneft Parliament and lobbying Financing parties The reorganisation of power Foreign-policy struggles

Chapter 4 • The State Strikes Back

The anti-Yukos ‘politburo’ First arrests Khodorkovsky’s response Khodorkovsky’s arrest First reactions Political fallout

Chapter 5 • Basmanny Justice

Pre-trial detention The criminal case The first trial Reactions Appeal In the penal colony

Chapter 6 • Collateral Damage

Pichugin: The Tambov cases and Valentina Korneeva Nefteyugansk and the murder of Petukhov The East Petroleum Handels case (Yevgeny Rybin) The Temerko case The Bakhmina case Vasily Aleksanyan Antonio Valdés-García (Seibatdalov) Other cases

Chapter 7 • The Trial of the Century

Further charges ‘A thief should sit in jail’ The system exposed Pardon and parole

Chapter 8 • Russia on Trial

International commentary and resolutions Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights

Chapter 9 • From Oligarch to Dissident

Business and the state The crisis of Russian liberalism Khodorkovsky as political philosopher and commentator Property and freedom First interview from jail Freedom the Russian way

Chapter 10 • Russia Is Worthy of Freedom

The left turn Realism or fatalism Another left turn The Medvedev years Commentator on Russian politics

Chapter 11 • Return, Resistance and Reform

Putin’s return The seeds of modernity Presidential review Pardon again Putinism and the future Freedom

Chapter 12 • Conclusion List of Acronyms Notes Bibliography Plates