Russia and the Baltic States

1234567891011121314151617181920
Across
  1. 1. Eastern Orthodox (98%) and Jewish (2%)
  2. 9. Capital of Russia
  3. 11. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
  4. 13. Capital is Bratislava
  5. 15. World's largest nation
  6. 17. One of the reasons the Soviets desired control of the Baltic States
  7. 18. World's deepest freshwater lake
  8. 20. Who created the Soviet Union in 1922?
Down
  1. 2. Drove off the Germans and established a Grand Duchy
  2. 3. What was torn down in 1989?
  3. 4. Speaks Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish, and Roma
  4. 5. Where does Russia import much of its food from?
  5. 6. One of the two important rivers of Eastern Europe; also Europe's longest river
  6. 7. Revolution that brought Russia under communism
  7. 8. Capital is Warsaw
  8. 10. Another term for communist Russia
  9. 12. After the fall of communism, the Russian economy began to turn towards this
  10. 14. A place of exile for criminals and religious and political prisoners
  11. 16. Brutal Russian leader who imposed communism on Eastern Europe
  12. 19. Russia's first czar