Across
- 3. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 5. an emperor of russia before 1917 (also spelled tzar or czar)
- 7. a republic of SW russia that declared independance but was forced to remain part of russia
- 9. peninsula that russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014
- 10. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (usually shortened to Soviet Union)
- 11. the part of Russia that is asia
Down
- 1. The current leader of russia
- 2. the legislative (law making) part of government
- 4. introduced glasnost and perestrokis to modernize communism
- 6. The Leader of russia soon after the USSR took over
- 7. The alphabet of the russian language
- 8. leadership or dominance, esp. by one country or social group
- 11. Arguably one of the worst of the communist russia czars, he killed tens of millions of people