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Russian Real Chapter 2B

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Distance Decay
The lack of info creates a lack of interaction
Republics
21 Republics make up the Russian Republic
Democratization
-communist

-privatization+freedom of movement

-command economy
-complete authority
-government control

-to turn communist to democracy they need Free Market Control
Unitary State System
-communist
-central government with total control
-one person/group has absolute power
Federal Sytem
-shared power
-central government+divisions
Population Implosion
-not enough youth to support the youth group

-encouraged immigration
BRIC
B.razil R.ussia I.ndia C.hina
-worlds largest emerging markets
-buy+sell goods
5 Regions
1)Russian Core-West of Urals (Moscow)

2)Southeastern Frontier-East of Urals to Ob River

3)Siberia-North East Quadrian

4)Russian Far East-Ob River to Vladivostok (Kamchatka Peninsula:Sakhalin Island)

5)Transcaucasia-South of Caucus Mts (Georgia/Armenia/Azerbaijan)
Russia
-21 Republics
-46 Provinces
-2 Federal cities
Unstable
1)Industrial Market-Things that are made

2)Commodity-Things that are naturally made (corruption)
-Gold/Iron/Oil
Moscow
-50 million people 1/3 total pop.
-mega city
-Attracts successful/wealthy
-Causes inflated land values
-Too expensive for average population (corruption)

3 Main Features
1)Kremlin=>Security
2)Cathedral=>Behaviors/Religion (Ethical)
3)"Socialist" Settlement=>Equal acces area

-Established a transport network of roads/rails that all lead to Moscowr
Nizny Novghorod
-Changed from industrial (Create) center to a commodity (Transfer/Transport) center
-Made cars
Ivanono
-Textile center
-Clothes
St. Petersburg
-4.6 million people

-Changed name to LINENGRAD after revolution

-On Baltic Sea
-Access to European trade
-Access to food+supplies
-Established shipping possibilities
Murmansk/Arkhangelsk
-Military Naval Base/Exports lumber
Volga River
-Dominant River

-life line=>Used to transport goods and raw materials
-Access to all trade
-On Black+Baltic Sea

-Perm+Volgagrad=>Natural gas+oil

-oldest Volga Don (Biggest+Most Productive)
Ural Mountains
-Industrial development
-Minerals
-Steel
-Coal

-Mountains=>Everything is under pressure/Easy to access and get through

-Seperates Asian Russia+Euro Russia
Novosibirsk
-Sits on Ob River where goods are transported

-Starting of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
Tomsk
-Oldest historical city
-17th century
Bratsk
-Business=>Mining

-Lumbering

-Hydroelectric power
Irkutsk
-Service industries
Siberia
-Southern perimeter

-Larger than U.S.

-Continuous frigid temperatures
-Stops things from happening

-15 million people

-Settlements=> Thousand kilos apart

-Energy=Natural Gas+Oil

-Create Steele=>Iron Ore

-Gold+Diamonds=>UNUSUAL because they occur in warmer conditions

-Bakal-Amur-Railroad
-BAM (1980's)
-Parallel to Trans-Siberian Railroad=>2,200 miles (Replaced it)
-Goods+Trades=>West-East
Vladivostok
-Ghost Town

-Can't transport food/people

-Reduce of population

-Factories closing

-No foreign markets
Kamchatka Peninsula
-Largest area on planet with no land linked to the outside
Adv: Government bribed people
Neg: Land is highly volcanic (people didn't want to live there)
Sakhalin Island
-Natural gas+oil
-Part of their economy=>Pipeline
Armenia
-Exclaves live in Azerbaijan=>By force during Soviet Rule

-Totally Christian=>Share the same religion with Russia

-Landlocked by Turkey+Azerbaijan

-Rely on Russian military for protection
Azerbaijan
-Exclaves in Iran for work (Azeris)

-One Islamic-Shi'ite

-Western nations payed for a new pipeline (U.S.+Canada)

-Russia's pipeline got cut out
Georgia
-Birth place of Josef Stalin

-Mistreatment towards pro-Russian minorities

-Encouragement of pro-European policies

-EU+NATO are their security
-Want to be with Europe too
Chechnya
-Capital=>Grozny

-Location=>Inside Caucasus Mts.-Refuge from Moscow rule

-Exiled:Following World War 2 were exiled by Josef Stalin from Soviet Union to the deserts of Kazakhstan for collaborating with Nazi Germany (Tens of thousands died; Allowed to return to homeland in 1957)

-Following the end of the Soviet Union=>Would not sign the Russian Federation Treaty (1991)-Chechen (Islamic) rebels waged war for independence (Chechen cities devastated with over 100,000 deaths)

-Chechen/Russian Conflicts
1)1999 bombed 3 apartment building in Moscow killing 230 people
2)2002 captured 700 Russian citizens inside a Moscow theatre eventually causing 130 deaths
3)2004 Attacked an elementary school in Beslan (350 students, parents, and teachers died)
4)2009-Carried out terrorist attacks in several Russian cities
5)2013-Boston Bombings at the Boston Marathon (Brothers were Chechen from the Dagestan Region)
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