AP Comparative Government Russia
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Chechnya | an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia |
| commercial courts | hear cases arising from civil disputes between firms or between firms and the government; similar to the US Supreme Court |
| Communist Party of the Russian Federation | Communist party in post-Soviet Russia; still receives a percentage of the vote |
| Constitutional Court | Highest body in the Russian legal system, responsible for constitutional review |
| Duma | Russian national legislature |
| Federation Council | the largely powerless upper house of the Russian Parliament |
| Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia | FITUR, the successor of the official trade union federation under the Soviet regime, fragmented and weak because of internal disunity and a reliance on clientism with the state |
| General Secretary | General term used to denote the head of a communist party |
| glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) |
| governor | the head of a state government |
| law-governed state | Gorbachevs plan to make the soviet union law governed rather than controlled by the communist party through arbitraty use of power |
| League of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers | associational group with moral authority that plays a political lobbying role in favor of the rights of those in the military service and provides services to soldiers and their familiies |
| loans for shares | the privatization arrangement devised by a group of magnates in 1995 who loaned money to the state in exchange for shares in major, state-owned compaines |
| nomenklatura | the system of patronage in Communist countries |
| oligarch | One of several people who rule a country or empire together, sharing the power |
| party of power | Russian term for a political party created to elect powerful officials to office |
| presidential decree | decrees issued which have force of law unless parliament passes legislatures that supersedes them |
| privatization | To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control. |
| procuracy | the prosecuting attorneys of the Russian judicial branch |
| Public Chamber | Russian advisory body that deliberates on matters of public policy and civil society |
| Vladimir Putin | Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000 |
| Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs | RUIE, Russian, influential associational group that represents the interest of big business and the market economy |
| Security Council | Five permanent members( US, UK, France, China, USSR) with veto power in the UN. Promised to carry out UN decisions with their own forces. |
| shock therapy | policies in formerly communist countries that envisage as rapid a shift to a market economy as possible |
| stabilization | attempts by the federal government to keep the economy healthy; includes monetary and fiscal policies |
| State Council | the official name of the military regime of Burma |
| State Duma | the lower house of the Russian Parliament |
| United Russia | the political party led bu Russian president Vladimir Putin |
| Boris Yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. |
| Yukos | major Russian oil company that was forced into bankruptcy in 2003 as a result of government prosecution under Putin |
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