Russia Vocabulary

permanently frozen ground

• Secular

• Tribute

• Permafrost

• Czar

infected; unfit for use because of the presence of unsafe elements

• Diplomacy

• Contaminated

• Strikes

• Remote

The large forest area that stretches through northern Russia

• Tunda

• Greenhouse Gas

• Pesticides

• Taiga

giving off energy caused by the breakdown of atoms

• Radioactive

• Coup

• Autonomy

• Communism

Flat treeless land found in arctic and subarctic

• Taiga

• Tundra

• Terrain

• Collective farms

A system in which a political party gets the same percentage of seats as its percentage of votes

• Proportional Representation

• Hydroelectric Power

• Scored Earth Policy

• Perestroika

a source of energy that uses flowing water to produce electricity

• Methane

• Gauge

• Hydroelectric power

• Port

A system of government with a strong central government and local government units

• Proportional Representation

• Socialism

• Communism

• Federal System

hard to reach, isolated

• Coup

• Remote

• Glasnost

• Secular

A sudden, illegal takeover of government by force

• Coup

• Terrain

• Collective farms

• Invaders