Across
- 2. Russian court with judicial review (on Putin's request)
- 3. Russia and Nigeria are both one (thanks to oil)
- 5. describes electoral methods of both Federal Assembly and Mexican Congress
- 7. Gorbachev restructuring reforms introducing limited market and political change
- 8. System combining directly elected president with a prime minister and cabinet
- 9. Formerly the Russian Communist party but now the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- 13. founder of Smart Voting, now dead
- 16. Soviet-era party appointment system whose networks still shape Russian elites
- 17. can change internal boundaries and ratify treaties
- 19. run by "super-governors"
- 23. term of office for both Putin and Sheinbaum
- 24. Eg. Republic of Altai vs Altai Krai
- 25. Restive North Caucasus region with separatist conflict against Moscow
Down
- 1. Putin's role during Medvedev's presidency
- 4. Business magnates in Russia, created during shock therapy
- 6. Gorbachev policy of openness that loosened censorship and controls
- 10. Term for Russia’s controlled elections, media, and opposition
- 11. Russian state-controlled natural gas giant often used as a foreign policy tool
- 12. Rough functional equivalent of the UK House of Commons, but with far less independence
- 14. Russian equivalent of Mexico’s old PRI-style dominant party
- 15. Long-serving Russian president associated with managed democracy
- 18. Fortress-like seat of Russian executive power in Moscow
- 20. Using legal rules to serve those in power rather than to limit the state
- 21. Putin ally who served one term as president before returning to prime minister
- 22. The new KGB/FSB