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_____________ means greater freedom of speech and media freedom or openness. __________ means reduced government control over the economy or restructuring.
a) Democracy, Republic
b) Perestroika, Glasnost
c) Glasnost, Perestroika
d) tsars, tajiks

Who expanded Russia and added much of Ukraine and parts of Poland?
a) Putin
b) Stalin
c) Gorbachev
d) Catherine The Great

The governments of most Central Asian countries today can BEST be characterized as _______________.
a) communists
b) democracies
c) dictatorships
d) liberals

When the Soviet Union collapsed in ______ Central Asia and the Caucasus were divided into eight independent countries.
a) 1999
b) 1976
c) 1971
d) 1991

The ______________ culture greatly influenced the culture of the Kievan Rus between about 1000 and the early 1200s.
a) Byzantine
b) Roman
c) Greek
d) Islam

President Putin defeated rebels in ___________, demonstrated Russia's growing military power.
a) Germany
b) Albania
c) Greece
d) Chechnya

_________ was the event that caused so much unrest that it helped to bring about the Russian Revolution.
a) WWII
b) WWI
c) The Cold War
d) Civil War

___________ languages is th emost widely spoken language in several countries in Northern Eurasia.
a) German
b) English
c) Islam
d) Turkic

_____________ has one of the most repressive governments in the region and the governments practice of forbidding the press from criticizing the president.
a) Soviet Union
b) Uzbekistan
c) Turkmenistan
d) Pakistan

The main religions followed in Northern Eurasia was __________ and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
a) Catholic
b) Budhism
c) Islam
d) Hinduism

The ___________ makes the construction of roads and buildings difficult which is why few people live in Siberia.
a) permafrost
b) snow
c) rain
d) sleet

_________, in Uzbekistan are in danger of losing their identity as the government tries to promote Uzbek traditions.
a) Turkic
b) Tajiks
c) Farmers
d) tsars

The _____________ dominated Eastern Europe after WWII by keeping troops in the region and setting up communist governments.
a) West
b) Greeks
c) Soviet Union
d) Uzbek

_________ put the energy industry of Russia under government control, which most clearly represented a step back from free enterprise.
a) Stalin
b) Putin
c) Gorbachev
d) Cicero

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