The Kremlin Conspiracy

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Luganov—president of Russia; former prime minister; former head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)

Yulia Luganova—wife of the president

Oleg Kraskin—senior aide and son-in-law to President Luganov

Marina Kraskin—Oleg’s wife; daughter of the president

Boris Zakharov—chief of staff to President Luganov

Mikhail Petrovsky—minister of defense

Dmitri Nimkov—head of FSB

Nikolay Kropatkin—deputy director of FSB

Pavel Kovalev—chief of the president’s security detail

Katya Slatsky—Olympic figure skater

Vasily Malenchenko—journalist

Galina Polonskaya—journalist

MOSCOW—9 SEPTEMBER 1999

Louisa Sherbatov had just turned six, but she would never turn seven.

The whirling dervish had fallen asleep on the couch just before midnight, still wearing her new magenta dress, still wearing the matching ribbon in her blonde tresses, having finally crashed after a sugar high. Snuggled up next to her mother, she looked so peaceful, so content as she hugged her favorite stuffed bear. The two lay surrounded by the dolls and books and sweaters and other gifts Louisa had received from her aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins as well as her friends from the elementary school just down the block at the end of Guryanova Street.

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