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- What is the Prime Minister’s position?
- Name the two parts of the Russian Legislature.
- What is the Institution of Presidential Representatives? Why was it created?
- Who hand-picked Dmitri Medvedev as the new Russian President?
- What are two political parties that have influence in Russian politics besides United Russia?
- What is the party “United Russia”?
- When are the parliamentary elections? (go on the Internet to find this)
- When are the presidential elections? (go on the Internet to find this)
- Who are the President and Prime Minister of Russia?
Putin
- Why is Putin described as a law and order man?
- Did Putin have any idea that he was being groomed for President? How did he find out?
- Why did Yeltsin resign early?
- Why did the people want Putin as President?
- Why did he become Yeltsin’s candidate for President?
- Why was Putin so intent on stopping the rebels in Chechnya?
- What is the Vertikal of Control?
- How did Putin attack the Oligarchy?
- What are Siloviki?
Aslund, Anders. 2007 Russia’s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed. Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Chapter Six
- 1. How does Aslund describe Putin?
- 2. What was “ Unity”?
- 3. How did the oligarchs have influence on politics in Russia?
- 4. What was Putin’s first act as acting president of Russia?
- 5. What does “sovereign democracy” mean in Putin-speak?
- 6. Who was Vladimir Gusinsky and what happened to him? Why?
- 7. How did Putin react to the Kursk submarine tragedy?
- 8. What did Boris Berezovsky do?
- 9. What is Putin’s “Vertikal of Control”?
10.10. How did Putin control the regional governors?
- 11. What were the three major goals of Putin’s first term?
- 12. Describe Putin’s first-term government.
- 13. What was the result of Putin’s dictatorship of law?
Chapter Seven
- 1. What is “ United Russia”? How was it formed? Why?
- 2. Why didn’t the Russians want to vote in the 2004 election?
- 3. How did the Kremlin get the Russians to take interest in this election?
- 4. Why were the Duma elections described as “Free but not fair”?
- 5. Were the presidential elections fair?
- 6. Why was the selection of Mikhail Fradkov as PM significant as a predictor of Putin’s second term?
- 7. What happened in Beslan?
- 8. How was the Russian governments reaction to the Beslan crisis descriptive of the Putin government?
- 9. Was corruption a factor in the Putin government? Why?
- 10. How did Putin try to control the Ukrainian presidential election?
- How did Russia anger both the US and the EU?
- What is a current military issue between the US and Russia?
- Name 3 actions that Putin took to make Russia more authoritarian?
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