Modern Russia
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Kremlin
The "white house" of Russia
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Boris Yeltsin
First elected president
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Shock Therapy
Going from one end of the political/economic spectrum to the other quickly
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Oligrachs
Small group of wealthy businessmen
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Personal autocracy
A government run by a lone individual
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FSB
The Federal Security Service
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Bill Browder
Richest foreign investor in Russia
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Magnitsky act
Froze the American bank accounts of people who were involved in Sergei Magnitsky's death
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Alexei Navalny
Greatest political opponent to Putin
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Bashar al-Assad
Current dictator of Syria
