Acknowledgments
I am grateful to James Nixey, Orysia Lutsevych, Ľubica Polláková and Anna Morgan in the Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme for their encouragement and support. Jake Statham and Anna Brown copy-edited the manuscript, and gave me invaluable advice and help. Sincere thanks go to several people who offered thoughtful and trenchant comments on an earlier draft of this paper: Kirk Bennett, Laurence Broyd, Alexander Hug, Donald Jensen, Rebecca Loughna, James Sherr, Kataryna Wolczuk and two anonymous reviewers. Any errors are of course mine.