Table of Contents
Foreword Nick Fielding vii
Part I: The FSB Regains Power
Introduction 3
1 The Dawn of a New Era: The Birth of the FSB 9
2 Friends in High Places: Cultivating the Security Services 23
3 "The Interests of the State Demand It": Spymaria 35
4 The Threat Within: Infiltrating Countermovements 49
5 Targeting Extremism: The Rise of "Watchdog Surveillance 63
6 Living Off the Fat of the Land: The New Elite 75
7 The Love of the Game: The FSB and National Sport 83
8 The Renaissance of Yuri Andropov 91
9 The Propaganda Machine: Image-Making and the FSB 101
10 The Secret Underground 117
11 Lefortovo Prison 125
Part II Response to Terrorism
12 The Nord-Ost Siege 135
13 The Beslan Crisis 155
14 The Russian Response 165
15 Extrajudicial Killings 179
Part III Activity Abroad
16 Assassinations 193
17 FSB Intelligence 209
18 Hackers 227
Conclusion 239
Appendix 1 243
Appendix 2 247
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 255
Index 285
About the Authors 301