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- Kremlin
- The “white house” of Russia
- Centralized → very powerful
- Shock therapy
- Going from one side of the economic/political spectrum to the other very quickly
- USSR: communism → capitalism
- “Boys in Reeboks”: American advisors that suggested the sudden change
- Consequences:
- Prices increase
- Less government subsidies
- Subsidy: money granted by the government
- Increases unemployment
- Creates class division
- Oligarchs
- Small groups of extremely wealthy businessmen
- Got their wealth from privatization during shock therapy
- Political influence using wealth/bribery
- Influence on election outcome
- Claim questionable tax breaks
- Access to special licenses
- Boris Yeltsin, 1991-1999
- First popularly elected president of Russia
- Stopped hardliner communists from throwing a coup against Gorbachev
- End of the USSR → communists were upset
- Changes:
- Freedom to speak openly
- Freedom to travel
- Presidential + parliamentary elections
- Funneled enormous wealth into the hands of a few → oligarchs
- Economic reforms hurt more then helped
- Caused political + social division
- Personalist autocrat ^^(Vladimir Putin)^^
- Run by lone individuals
- Higher levels of corruption
- Whatever policies/officials they want
- Slower economic growth
- Less focused on the betterment of the state
- Greater repression
- Target political opponents
- Censor/punish protests and dissent
- Less stable policies
- Informal inner circle for advice
- Rehabilitation of Stalin’s image
- Downplaying his mistakes
- Purged millions
- Gulags (labor camps)
- Playing up his successes
- Built nationalism
- Under Putin, people’s support for Stalin rose
- FSB
- “Federal Security Service”
- Successor to KGB
- Secret Soviet police
- Magnitsky Act
- Bill Browed: richest foreign investor in Russia
- Expelled by Putin → sent lawyer Magnitsky
- Kept in prison, tortured, killed
- Magnitsky Act: sanction that froze the American bank accounts of the officials involved in Magnitsky’s death
- Still active
- Alexei Navalny
- Putin’s greatest political opponent
- Poisoned him → survived → currently in jail
- Shows how dissent in Russia is dealt with
- Political martyr
- Ukraine
- Yanukovich = Ukrainian president
- Chose closer ties with Russia over joining the European Union
- Euromaiden protest → want to join the EU
- Russia wants Ukraine to be loyal → Putin needs Ukraine for his future plans
- Crimea
- Referendum by Russia on whether or not they wanted to be annexed
- Said yes → EU assumes it was forced → sanctions
- Syria
- Russia supports dictator Bashar al-Assad
- Gets to fight US through proxy war
- US is against Assad
- Say in the Middle East
- Reclaim their old naval base in the Mediterranean
- Sell weapons to Assad to make money
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