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Links Dossier — Topics > Finance Laundering — Organised Crime Figures

We Need to Talk About Putin

/ Mark Galeotti (2019)

Analysis of Putin’s methods and the Russian system of power. ‘Adhocracy’ thesis; Galeotti is also coiner-and-debunker of the ‘Gerasimov doctrine’ — the over-attribution corrective

Links Dossier — Topics > Mirror States — NATO Enlargement Debate

Opposing view to the Chatham House piece; present the pair together. Flag: opinion register

Section 2: Post-Soviet Transition & the New Russia > USSR Collapse

Vodka Cola

/ Charles Levinson (Gordon & Cremonesi, 1980)

Early account of East-West business relationships during détente — documents the commercial infrastructure that predated and enabled the post-1989 oligarch networks.

Links Dossier — Official Studies > Chernobyl — Documentary Base

Vorotnikov’s diary entries covering the 27 April evacuation decision and 29 April Politburo session where Dolgikh declares the situation ‘catastrophic’; reactor destroyed, graphite expelled, radiation extreme.

Section 8: American Power & the Unspoken War > NSA Surveillance of Allies

US Withdrawal from UNESCO: History and 2017 Announcement

/ Congressional Research Service / Various

Documents the US pattern of withdrawing from UNESCO — first in 1984 (Reagan), returning 2003 (Bush), withdrawing again 2017 (Trump), rejoining 2023 (Biden). Illustrates the instrumental US relationship with multilateralism.

Section 8: American Power & the Unspoken War > NSA Surveillance of Allies

Trump administration withdrawal from the UN Global Compact on Migration negotiations — the first of a series of multilateral exits that characterised the first and second Trump terms.