26.“China Wants All Oil from Russia’s ESPO Pipeline,” RIA Novosti, February 2012, http://en.rian.ru/business/20120215/171326659.html.

27.Blank, “A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia,” Global Asia, June 2012, http://www.globalasia.org/V7N2_Summer_2012/Stephen_Blank.html.

28.Author’s conversations, Moscow, Russia, March 2013.

CHAPTER NINE

1.“Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin: ‘We Have to Take a Chance with More Democracy,’” Der Spiegel(Hamburg), January 23, 2013, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-putin-ally-alexei-kudrin-on-democracy-in-russia-a-878873.html.

2.Alexandr Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999).

3.As cited in Charles Clover, “Will the Russian Bear Roar Again?” Financial Times, December 2, 2000.

4.Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999), 190.

5.Clover, “Will the Russian Bear Roar Again?” Financial Times, December 2, 2000.

6.As cited in “USSR Reborn,” Daily Mail(London), October 5, 2011.

7.Dugin, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoyo Budushiye Rossii[The Foundations of Geopolitics: Russia’s Geopolitical Future] (Moscow: Arctogia Centr, 1999), 9.

8.As cited in Herman Pirchner Jr., Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.

9.Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, “Biographia [Biography],” http://oborona.gov.ru/pages/315/.

10.“Putin picks Dmitry Rogozin, a leading nationalist, to be NATO envoy,” International Herald Tribune, January 10, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/europe/10iht-russia.4.9135955.html.

11.Military-industrial commission of the Russian Federation, “Main Page,” http://oborona.gov.ru/.

12.Author’s interviews, Moscow, Russia, March 2013.

13.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Russian Question(New York: Farrar, 1995).

14.Ibid.

15.Pirchner, Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.

16.As cited in Igor Torbakov, “Russian Policymakers Air Notion of ‘Liberal Empire’ in Caucasus, Central Asia,” Eurasianet, October 26, 2003, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav102703.shtml.

17.As cited in Vadim Dubnov: “The Russia We Will Never Lose; Fighting Imaginary Separatism Is an Extremely Costly Undertaking,” gazeta.ru, February 10, 2012.

18.“Russians Ponder Unification with Ukraine, Belarus,” Angus Reid Global Monitor, October 5, 2005, http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/15267/russians_ponder_unification_with_ukraine_belarus/.

19.Ibid.

20. On The Admission to the Russian Federation and the Formation Within the Russian Federation of a New Subject, 2001, as translated and reprinted in Pirchner, Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), 3.

21.Ibid.

22.Ibid.

23.Denis Trifonov, “‘Ivanov Doctrine’ Reflects Moscow’s Growing Confidence in the CIS and Beyond,” Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, November 19, 2003, http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/1657.

24.Then Russian president Boris Yeltsin, as cited in Helena Yakovlev Golani, “Two Decades of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Cases of Belarus and Ukraine,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem European Forum, Working Paper, 2011, 18, http://www.ef.huji.ac.il/publications/Yakovlev%20Golani.pdf.

25.Pirchner, Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005).

26.“Russian PM Says Unification with Belarus Possible and Desirable,” VOA News, July 31, 2011, http://www.voanews.com/content/russian-pm-says-unification-with-belarus-possible-and-desirable—126555343/170796.html.

27.Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 164.

28.Pirchner Jr., Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia’s Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005).

29.Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich, “The Orange Revolution,” Time, November 28, 2004, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,832225,00.html.

30.Rajan Menon and Alexander J. Motyl, “Counterrevolution in Kiev,” Foreign Affairs, November–December 2011, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136408/rajan-menon-and-alexander-j-motyl/counterrevolution-in-kiev.

31.“Poll: Ukrainians Support Unification with Russia more than Russians,” Kyiv Post, March 25, 2011, http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poll-ukrainians-support-unification-with-russia-mo-100860.html.

32.See, for example, Elizabeth Owen, “Georgia: Moving from Revolution to Democratic Institutions,” Eurasianet, November 27, 2005, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav112805.shtml.

33.Charles King, “Clarity in the Caucasus?” Foreign Affairs, October 11, 2009, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65469/charles-king/clarity-in-the-caucasus.

34.“Q&A: Conflict in Georgia,” BBC, November 11, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7549736.stm.

35.“Day-by-Day: Georgia-Russia Crisis,” BBC, August 21, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7551576.stm.

36.“Medvedev submits 2010 military base agreements with S. Ossetia, Abkhazia to Duma for ratification,” Interfax, August 8, 2011.

37.“Report: Russia to Build Naval Base in Rebel Region,” CNN, January 26, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-26/world/russia.abkhazia.naval.base_1_south-ossetia-abkhazia-russian-military-bases?_s=PM:WORLD.

38.Jim Nichol, “Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for US Interests,” Congressional Research Service, September 27, 2012, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/199404.pdf.

39.“Russia Recognizes Georgia’s Breakaway Republics,” RIA-Novosti, August 28, 2008, http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080826/116291407.html.

40.“International Recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Abkhazia_and_South_Ossetia.

41.Olesya Vartanyan and Ellen Barry, “Georgian Sees Closer Ties with Russia,” New York Times, February 5, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/world/europe/georgias-ivanishvili-sees-warming-with-russia.html?_r=0.

42.Sergei Fomin, “Derussificatsiya: Nerazreshennie Vopros [De-Russification: An Unanswered Question],” Litiraturnaya Gazeta, no. 44 (November 7, 2012): http://www.lgz.ru/article/20184/.

CHAPTER 10

1.Roman Muzalevsky, “NATO Supply Routes to Afghanistan under Threat,” Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor8, no. 221 (December 6, 2011): http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=38749.

2.David Satter, “The Russian Stake in Afghanistan,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, E-Notes, March 2013, http://www.fpri.org/articles/2013/03/russian-stake-afghanistan.

3.“Russia Approves Ulyanovsk NATO Hub,” RIA Novosti, June 29, 2012, http://en.ria.ru/russia/20120629/174312840.html.

4.Herman Pirchner Jr., “A False Start with Russia,” Journal of International Security Affairs, no. 23 (Fall/Winter 2012):89.