292220785 | Transcaucasus | A regions that consist of Amenia,Azerbaijan, and Georgia. | 0 | |
292220786 | Siberia | The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk. | 1 | |
292220787 | Central asia | a region consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan | 2 | |
292220788 | Baltic states | Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, three countries that border the Baltic Sea. | 3 | |
292220789 | Ukraine | a republic in southeastern Europe | 4 | |
292220790 | Belarus | a landlocked republic in eastern Europe | 5 | |
292220791 | European Russia | the Russia that is part of Europe | 6 | |
292220792 | Far east | a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia) | 7 | |
292220793 | Ural mountains | a mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea | 8 | |
292220794 | Kamchatka peninsula | a peninsula in eastern Siberia | 9 | |
292220795 | Volga river | the longest river in europe and Russia's most important commercial river | 10 | |
292220796 | North European plain | a large fertile area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains | 11 | |
292220797 | West siberian plain | world's largest area of flatland located east of the Ural Mountains | 12 | |
292220798 | Central Siberian plateau | made up of sharply demarcated surfaces of varying altitudes occupying most of Siberia between the Yenisei and Lena rivers | 13 | |
292220799 | Turan plain | An extensive lowland in between the Caspian Sea and the mountains and uplands of Central Asia | 14 | |
292220800 | Caspian sea | a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River | 15 | |
292220801 | Lake baikal | Deepest lake in the world. Holds 20% of earth's fresh water | 16 | |
292220802 | Kuril islands | Russia took posession of the islands after the Russo-Japanese War but they are still in dispute. | 17 | |
292220803 | Vladimir putin | Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000 | 18 | |
292220804 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) | 19 | |
292220805 | Glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | 20 | |
292220806 | Perestroika | an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union | 21 | |
292220807 | Perestroika | an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union | 22 | |
292220808 | Democratization | the spread of representative government to more countries and the process of making governments more representative | 23 | |
292220809 | Boris yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. | 24 | |
292220810 | Vladimir lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 25 | |
292220811 | Ussr | the union of soviet socialist republics, or soviet union, formed in 1922 by the communists and officially dissolved in 1991 | 26 | |
292220812 | Joesph stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition (780) | 27 | |
292220813 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 28 | |
292220814 | Russian mafia | A diverse group of organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union, Russia, and the CIS. | 29 | |
293485098 | South ossetia | Ossetia is split between Russia (north) and Georgia (south). Many ethnic Russians live in South Ossetia. | 30 | |
293485099 | Abkhazia | an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea | 31 | |
293485100 | Nagorno-karabakh | A mountainous area of Azerbaijan where Armenia and Azerbiajan faught | 32 | |
293485101 | Exclave | a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory. | 33 | |
293485102 | Trans-Siberian railroad | railroad that runs from Moscow to Vladivosto on the East coast and is the longest single rail line in the world | 34 | |
293485103 | Karl marx | founder of modern communism | 35 | |
293485104 | Silk road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 36 | |
293485105 | Aral sea | a lake east of the Caspian Sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that has , lost 80% of water volume from irrigation projects | 37 | |
293485106 | Chernobyl | nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 & released radioactive materials into the air | 38 |
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