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The Caucasus Mountains form a border between these two places.
What is Russia and Trascaucasia?
100
Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
What are the Baltic Republics?
100
In 1917 the rule of the czars was ended by this.
What is the Russian Revolution?
100
These are the Soviet farms that employed thousands of laborers.
What is a collective farm?
100
The Russian leaders used this to move from a command economy to a capitalist economy.
What is privatization?
200
The fertile, black soil found in the Northern European Plain
What is chernozem?
200
The oldest and deepest lake in the world.
What is lake Baikal?
200
The Russian leader that put an end to the Mongol rule.
Who is Ivan the Great?
200
In the republic of Georgia, family and friends sit and enjoy this traditional meal.
What is a supra?
200
This term describes the idea that increasing distances between places tends to reduce interactions amond them.
What is distance decay?
300
The longest river in Europe
What is the Volga River
300
The only vegetation not found in Russia and the Republics?
What is swamp?
300
The economy in which the central government makes all the economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
300
The control of Central Asia between Great Britain and Czarist Russia was often called this.
What is the Great Game?
300
This criminal organization threatens Russia's economy.
What is the Russian mafia?
400
The term used to describe a region's distance away from the moderating influence of the sea.
What is continentality?
400
The region known for frigid temperatures and its many natural resources.
What is Siberia?
400
The meeting point of many differrent languages in this area is often called the Mountain of Languages.
What is Transcaucasia?
400
One of these republics is not in the Caucasus region: Chechnya, North Ossetia, Ukraine, or Dagestan.
What is Ukraine?
400
This is the cause of the regional conflict in the Caucasus.
What is the presence of more than 50 different ethnic groups?
500
The mountain range that separates the Northern European West Siberian plains.
What is the Ural Mountains?
500
The decision about whether the Caspian is a sea or lake will determine this.
What is "how oil resources are divided?"
500
The fall of the society in 1991 caused the region to divide into 15 independent republics.
What is the USSR or Soviet Union?
500
This led to conflict in the Caucasus region.
What is the break up of the Soviet Union?
500
The mountainous region that has caused conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
What is Nagorno-Karabakh?