Abeka 5th grade (Eastern Hemisphere History & geography) Quiz 11

First president of Russia

Boris Yeltsin

Capital of Russia

Moscow

Narrow straits controlled by Turkey

Bosporus and the Dardanelles

Soviet agency in charge of national security and spying

KGB

World's largest landlocked country

Kazakhstan

Last leader of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev

President of Russia who reversed many of Russia's new freedoms

Vladimir Putin

Country whose name means 'Land of the Free'

Uzbekistan

Country covered by the Karakum Desert

Turkmenistan

Smallest of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan

Virginia

Pennsylvania

Louisana

Maryland

Florida

Kentucky

Rhode Island