Modern Russia

Kremlin

The "white house" of Russia

Boris Yeltsin

First elected president

Shock Therapy

Going from one end of the political/economic spectrum to the other quickly

Oligrachs

Small group of wealthy businessmen

Personal autocracy

A government run by a lone individual

FSB

The Federal Security Service

Bill Browder

Richest foreign investor in Russia

Magnitsky act

Froze the American bank accounts of people who were involved in Sergei Magnitsky's death

Alexei Navalny

Greatest political opponent to Putin

Bashar al-Assad

Current dictator of Syria