USSR
He was the last leader of the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Russia’s current regime type.
What is an illiberal democracy (or hybrid regime)?
Ex-KGB officer
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Region in southern Russia known for rebellion and terrorism.
What is Chechnya?
The term for state involvement and control in the economy.
What is state corporatism?
introductcing capatalism to the Soviet economy.
What is Perestroika?
Russia’s current legislative body.
What is the Federal Assembly?
Putin’s major political party.
What is United Russia?
Putin’s justification for invading Ukraine.
What is "denazification" and protecting Russian speakers?
Russian state-controlled gas giant.
What is Gazprom?
Gorbachev’s policy of political openness.
What is Glasnost?
The lower house of the Russian legislature.
What is the Duma?
Term for consolidating political power around one leader.
What is authoritarianism?
Russian mercenary group used in foreign conflicts.
What is Wagner Group?
International organization Russia was suspended from in 2022.
What is the Council of Europe?
Year the Soviet Union officially collapsed.
What is 1991?
Russia’s executive system is a combo of president and prime minister.
What is a semi-presidential system?
The system where the state rewards loyalty with jobs and favors.
What is clientelism or patron-client system?
Annexed in 2014, still hotly contested today.
What is Crimea?
Name of Putin’s energy-based economic strategy.
What is the resource curse or petro-state economy?
Economic plan that caused rapid privatization & chaos in the 1990s.
What is Shock Therapy?
Constitutional change allowing Putin to stay in power until 2036.
What is the 2020 constitutional referendum?
Putin’s method of controlling the media.
What is state ownership or censorship?
2022 invasion that led to global sanctions and war.
What is Ukraine?
Rapid privatization under Yeltsin led to these wealthy power brokers.
Who are the oligarchs?