1. UNDP, Human Development Report 1990, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. The USSR included many economically backward republics of central Asia, making Russia much higher than 25th. The GDR at this time was ranked 20th, for example. For later data see the Human Development Report for 2000. Data for 2004 and 2006 taken from http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics. Accessed February 2008.
2. In May 2008, Dmitry Medvedev became President and Putin moved to become Prime Minister.
3. He was subsequently elected President and inaugurated in May 2000.
4. Cited by Ingmar Oldberg, ‘Russia’s Great Power Ambitions and Policy under Putin’, in Roger E. Kanet, Russia: Re-Emerging Great Power, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 13.
5. Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, at: www.russiaeurope.mid.ru/Russia Europe/concept.html (accessed January 2008).