Economics and Exports
This term refers to a country that relies heavily on a single export, often a natural resource, that distorts the rest of the economy, and it refers back a phenomenon in a European country in the 1600s.
What is Dutch disease?
This name for the Russian political elite translates as "power people" in English.
Who are the siloviks?
This is Russia's alternative to the European Union.
What is the Eurasian Economic Union?
The two Ukrainian regions that Russia invaded and occupied in 2014 (but did not annex at first) were these.
What is Donetsk and Luhansk?
Russia annexed Crimea in this year.
What is 2014?
This is the name for a Russian municipality that relies on a single industry or employer.
What is a monotown or monogorod?
This president of Russia is associated with a modernization agenda.
Who is Medvedev?
In his article, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault," Mearscheimer adopts this theoretical approach.
What is realism or neorealism?
The 2011-2012 protests were "For ____ ____."
What is For Fair Elections?
The frozen conflict in Moldova is over this region.
What is Transdnistria?
Russia currently has this type of income tax.
What is a flat tax?
Before he was president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy was engaged in this profession.
What is actor/comedian?
Name three countries that experienced color revolutions.
What are Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan?
In his article, Matovski said "It's the _______, Stupid."
What is stability?
Bashkir activists tried to protect this thing in their region through protests.
What is Mount Kushtau (a sacred chalk mountain)?
This is an approach to economic development emphasizing the positive role of state intervention.
What is dirigisme?
This oligarch owned the Yukos oil company before he was convicted of fraud and tax evasion.
Who is Khodorkovsky?
This author argued that Russian foreign policy was substantially influenced by domestic political factors.
Who is Mike McFaul?
This is the name of Aleksei Navalny's organization.
What is the Anti-Corruption Foundation?
This type of federalism developed under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
What is asymmetric federalism?
What are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan?
Putin's popularity rating in recent Levada polls is this percentage (+/- 2%).
What is 86%
These are the three levels of analysis in international relations.
What is individual, state, and systemic?
If Yeltsin presided over a negligent state in regard to civil society, Putin has overseen this kind of state.
What is vigilant?
This is the number of federal subjects (regions) are there in the Russian Federation (answer within +/- 2).
What is 83?