Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
Federalism
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100
The current president of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
The lower house of the Russian parliament.
What is the State Duma?
100
The body that confirms judges to the higher courts.
What is the Federation Council?
100
The way regional governors get into office.
What is presidential appointment?
100
The peninsula disputed between Ukraine and Russia that Russia currently has control over.
What is Crimea?
200
The Russian equivalent of the United States White House (but not the literal Russian White House in Moscow).
What is the Kremlin?
200
The more powerful house of the Russian Parliament.
What is the State Duma?
200
The highest Russian court with the power of judicial review.
What is the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation?
200
A presidential appointee that supervises multiple regional governors.
What is a presidential representative?
200
What unconventional audience does a series of strange Putin campaign advertisements appear to target?
What are virgins?
300
The president divides executive responsibility with this body, which he appoints.
What is the Government?
300
The step in the legislative process before a bill goes to the Federation Council.
What is the third reading?
300
A type of trial meant to influence the public rather than serve justice.
What is a show trial?
300
The most autonomous type of federal subject in Russia.
What is a republic?
300
The Soviet system of elite recruitment.
What is Nomenklatura?
400
The current Russian head of government.
Who is Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev?
400
The title of the members of the lower house of Russian Parliament.
What is deputy?
400
The member of the Government who oversees the judiciary.
Who is the Minister of Justice?
400
The number of federal super-districts in Russia
What is 8?
400
The root vegetable Jon Stewart references seemingly randomly in the video shown in class.
What is a giant radish?
500
These are the three areas of concern of the ministries the president informally oversees.
What are coercion, law enforcement, and state security? (These are the power ministries)
500
The number of members in the less powerful house of parliament.
What is 178?
500
The protester interviewed in the Vice video who said she was at the Bolotnaya square protest in May 2012.
Who is Polina Bogdanova?
500
The three types of Russian federal subjects with no special constitutional status.
What are Krais, Oblasts, and Cities of Federal Importance?
500
The smallest federal super-district in Russia by area.
What is the North Caucuses district?
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