Physical Geography and Environmental Issues
Winter and Summer climate experience in Russia
Cold winters and Cool summers
Key railroad passage to the Pacific completed in 1904
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Northern branch of the Indo-European ethnolinguistic family
Slavic peoples
Faction of Russian communist representing industrial workers
Bolsheviks
Small and private group of politically well-connected businessmen who control important aspects of the Russian economy
Oligarchs
What lake is known to be one of the worlds largest lakes, located in Siberia?
Lake Baikal
Parallels the older line and runs north of lake Baikal to the Amur River
Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad
Form of Christianity linked to eastern Europe and with church leaders in Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Restructuring of the planned centralized economy
perestroika
Practices that includes women being lured or abducted into prostitution
Human trafficking
What else has oil brought to Azerbaijan besides wealth?
Pollution
Large Soviet-era houseing projects of the 1970s and 1980s
Mikrorayons
Slavic-speaking Christians who had earlier migrated to the region seeking freedom in the ungoverned steppes
Cossacks
Customs union designed to encourage trade and political ties between member states
Where does corruption also remain widespread
Throughout Eurasia
What is the tundra region most associated with?
Permafrost
The Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Uniton
Russification
What language dominates the Russian Empire region
Slavic languages
What area have leaders been slow to open political and economic opportunities in western and central Europe
Belarus
When did the expansion of the EEU take place
2015
What does our use of the term Eurasia is in recognition of?
The region's shifting orientation
Eurasia is home for about how many?
200 million
Moscow
What seat does Russia retains a permanent seat on
UN Security Council
In which the state controlled production targets and industrial output
Centralized economic planning