Religion & Culture
This religion separated from the Roman Catholic Church and spread to Russia.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
Most Russian cities are located in this part of the country.
What is western Russia?
Soviet Union
What is 1991?
Private ownership and competition describe this type of economy.
What is a market economy?
Russia and the U.S. are both this type of system.
What is a federal system?
This church dominates Russian society.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Russia is located in both Europe and this continent.
What is Asia?
Many former Soviet states had once been these types of nations.
What are independent nations?
Selling government businesses to private owners helped create this.
What is economic growth?
Russia’s president serves this many years per term.
What is six years?
Ongoing violence in Russia is often caused by these differences.
What are ethnic differences?
Russian is widely spoken in Kazakhstan because of this former political control.
What is the Soviet Union?
This type of economy existed in the Soviet Union.
What is a command economy?
This economic change allowed entrepreneurship after independence.
What is private investment?
Russia is considered a government ruled by this group.
Who are the people?
Russia’s religion came from this continent.
What is Europe?
This geographic factor explains why cities developed in western Russia.
What is a milder climate / closeness to Europe?
In a communist system, economic decisions are made by this group.
Who is the central government?
A major challenge of moving from communism to free enterprise.
What is unemployment / inflation / economic instability?
The U.S. limits presidential power more than this country.
What is Russia?
When did the Berlin Wall Fall?
What is Nov. 1989?
Yugoslavia was located on this peninsula.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
The U.S. and Europe helped stop violence by doing this.
What is peacekeeping / military intervention?
How many countries formed after Yugoslavia collapsed?
What is six?
The Yugoslav government failed because of these differences.
What are cultural and religious differences?