Russian Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• ukraine : invaded by russia in february of 2022
• moscow : the capital of russia
• permafrost : permanently frozen soil
• brackish : a word meaning “salty water”
• upland : an area of high elevation
• communism : economic system property should belong to the community (state)
• ussr : union of soviet socialist republics
• glasnost : “openness” to more political and social freedoms
• perestroika : “restructuring” the economic system
• migration theory : the theory that siberian people crossed to alaska to populate the americas
• gulags : labor camps
• oligarch : small group who controls govt and uses it to their advantage
• inflation : gradual rise in prices in an economy over time
• russian : main ethnic group of russia
• subarctic : forest region (taiga)between 60 & 66 ½ degrees n, permafrost
• ivan iii : a muscovy prince that drove out mongols
• ivan iv : first tzar
• catherine the great : married peter the great’s grandson
• industrialization : command economy-no free choice for businesses
• nato : north atlantic treaty organization
• kremlin : seat of russian govt.
• matryoshka : another name for nesting doll