Respondents in this project will remain anonymous. Interviews were conducted between 2007 and 2011, in London, Paris, Moscow and St Petersburg, in total 42 interviews. In personal interviews I avoided interviewing the ‘usual suspects’ – the vocal critics of sistema – and those whose positions in sistema make them too vulnerable. Published interviews and materials have also informed this study. The list below illustrates the most interesting materials:

1. Chronology of Putin's vertical of power and his memorable phrases, in ‘Putin u Vlasti 1999–2009’, Trud, 10 August 2009: 6.

2. Head of FSKN, Russian anti-narcotic service, Viktor Cherkesov, in V. Cherkesov, ‘Nel´zia dopustit´, chtoby voiny prevratilis’ v torgovtsev’, Kommersant Daily, 9 October 2007: 1.

3. Owner of Russneft, Mikhail Gutseriev, ‘Ya reshil uiti’, Vedomosti, 30 July 2007.

4. Owner of Russneft, Mikhail Gutseriev, in Reznik (2010). ‘Ya nikogda ne torgoval Rossiei’, Vedomosti, 19 May 2010.

5. Kremlin Property Chief, Vladimir Kozhin, in Korobov and Kashin (2011: 1), http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/24625234.

6. First deputy chairman of the Federation Council's committee on economic policy, entrepreneurship and property Vladimir Gusev, in Yudina (2008: 2).

7. Chairman of the Special Information Service group, Sergei Minaev, in M. Zhogleva, ‘Okhotniki na reiderov’, Birzha, 13, 7 April 2008.

8. Head of Interpol-Russia, Timur Lakhonin, in M. Stepenin, ‘Timur Lakhonin: k Berezovskomu prisoedinilis´ Gutseriev i Chichvarkin’, Trud, 30 January 2009: 8.

9. Former owner of Evroset´, Evgenii Chichvarkin, in V. Sokolov, ‘Prosto Chichvarkin’, Kommersant UK 2010: 16.

10. Owner of Metalloinvest, Alisher Usmanov, in R. Iambaeva and A. Balashova, ‘Rech´ idet o soiuze mezhdu mnoyu personal´no i Olegom Deripaskoi’, Kommersant. Daily, 19 April 2011: 1.

11. Commentaries on Gennady Timchenko, in Reznik (2010: 4).

12. Chairwoman of the Moscow Federal Arbitration Court Lyudmila Maikova, in L. Maikova, ‘Interv´iu predsedatelia Federal´nogo Arbitrazhnogo Suda Moskovskogo okruga Liudmily Nikolaevny Maikovoi Parlamentskoi gazete’, Parlamentskaia Gazeta, 21 September 2005, www.fasmo.arbitr.ru/news/msg.asp?id_msg=56.

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