July 4—Ali Astamirov, Homicide
August 10—Martin Kraus, Homicide
October 9—Alexei Sidorov, Homicide
October 24—Alexei Bakhtin, Homicide
October 30—Yury Bugrov, Homicide
December 25—Pyotr Babenko, Homicide
2004
February 1—Yefim Sukhanov, Homicide
May 2—Shangysh Mongush, Homicide
June 9—Paul Klebnikov, Homicide
July 1—Maxim Maximov, Homicide
July 10—Zoya Ivanova, Homicide
July 17—Pail Peloyan, Homicide
August 3—Vladimir Naumov, Homicide
August 24—Svetlana Shishkina, Homicide
September 18—Vladimir Pritchin, Homicide
September 27—Jan Travinsky, Homicide
2005
July 28—Magomed Varisov, Homicide
August 31—Alexander Pitersky, Homicide
November 4—Kira Lezhneva, Homicide
2006
February 26—Ilya Zimin, Homicide
May 4—Oksana Teslo, Homicide
May 14—Oleg Barabyshkin, Homicide
May 23—Vyacheslav Akatov, Homicide
June 25—Anton Kretenchuk, Homicide
July 25—Yevgeny Gerasimenko, Homicide
July 31—Anatoly Kozulin, Homicide
August 8—Alexander Petrov, Homicide
October 16—Anatoly Voronin, Homicide
December 28—Vadim Kuznetsov, Homicide
2007
January 14—Yury Shebalkin, Homicide
January 20—Konstantin Borovko, Homicide
March 15—Leonid Etkind, Homicide
2008
February 8—Yelena Shestakova, Homicide
March 21—Gadji Abashilov, Homicide
March 21—Ilyas Shurpayev, Homicide
August 31—Magomed Yevloyev, Homicide by police
September 2—Abdulla Alishayev, Homicide
December 30—Shafig Amrakhov, Homicide
2009
January 4—Vladislav Zakharchuk, Homicide
January 19—Stanislav Markelov, Homicide
March 30—Sergei Protazanov, Homicide
June 29—Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, Homicide
August 11—Malik Akhmedilov, Homicide
October 25—Maksharip Aushev, Homicide
November 16—Olga Kotovskaya, Homicide
2010
January 20—Konstantin Popov, Homicide
February 23—Ivan Stepanov, Homicide
March 20—Maxim Zuyev, Homicide
May 5—Shamil Aliyev, Homicide
July 25—Bella Ksalova, Homicide
August 11—Magomed, Homicide
2011
December 15—Gadzhimurat Kamalov, Homicide
2012
July 7—Alexander Khodzinsky, Homicide
December 5—Kazbek Gekkiev, Homicide
2013
July 9—Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, Homicide
2014
August 1—Timur Kuashev, Homicide
2016
March 31—Dmitry Tsilikin, Homicide
2017
March 17—Yevgeny Khamaganov, Homicide
April 19—Nikolay Andrushchenko, Homicide
May 24—Dmitry Popkov, Homicide
September 8—Andrey Ruskov, Homicide
2018
April 15—Maksim Borodin, Homicide
July 23—Denis Suvorov, Homicide
July 31—Sergei Grachyov, Homicide
September 10—Yegor Orlov, Homicide
Names taken from Wikipedia and additional media sources.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Joe DeSantis, who once again played a key role in thinking through, researching, and critiquing Collusion; and Eric Nelson, our editor at Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Their insights were invaluable.
In addition, Newt Gingrich wishes to acknowledge Herman Pirchner of the American Foreign Policy Council for his constant advice about Vladimir Putin and the modern Russian state; Terry Balderson, who continues to serve as our extraordinary guide to daily information on the Internet; Bess Kelly, who makes the trains run smoothly; Woody Hales, whose scheduling and travel coordinating are world class; Audrey Bird, who has become an amazing book sales entrepreneur; his daughters, Kathy Lubbers (also his agent for twenty years) and Jackie Cushman, and their husbands, Paul Lubbers and Jimmy Cushman, who have encouraged all his adventures; his grandchildren, Maggie and Robert Cushman, whose future safety keeps him focused on national security and politics; and his wife, Callista Gingrich, whose companionship and love make it all worthwhile and who continues to support him as she serves as ambassador to the Holy See.
Pete Earley wishes to thank his agent, David Vigliano of AGI Vigliano Literary Associates, Dan and Karen Amato, Gloria Brown, James Brown, LeRue and Ellen Brown, Bob and Mary Donnell, William Donnell, Amanda Driscoll, George and Linda Earley, Dr. Gary S. Fialk, David “Gunny” Gambale, Walter and Keran Harrington, Marie Heffelfinger, Geraldine Henryhand, Michelle Holland, Don and Susan Infeld, Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, Merlin and Carol Leking, Julian and Natalie Levine, Bella Francis Luzi, Kelly McGraw Luzi, Bill and Rosemary Luzi, Ray and Julie McGraw, Dan Morton, David and Cindy Morton, Richard and Joan Miles, Jay and Barbara Myerson, Mike Sager, Jay and Elsie Strine, Lynn and LouAnn Smith, Dennis and Suzanne Sorensen, Kendall and Carolyn Starkweather, Stephen Tausend, and Sharon Yuras.
He also is grateful for the love, advice, and always-inspiring support of his wife, Patti Michele Luzi; and their children, Stephen, Tony, Kevin, Kathy, Kyle, Evan, and Traci; and granddaughter, Maribella.
About the Authors
NEWT GINGRICH is a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a Fox News contributor, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He is the author of thirty-six books, including the recent #1 bestseller Understanding Trump. He makes his home in Washington, D.C.
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Copyright
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Gingrich, Newt, author. | Earley, Pete, author.
Collusion: a novel / Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley.
p. cm.
ISBN 970-0-06-285998-3
1. Fiction—Espionage. I. Suspense fiction.
PS3557.I4945 C65 2019
Digital Edition APRIL 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-286000-2
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