AP comparative: Russia

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1. Russia could be considered to be an illiberal democracy if it has a free, regular, and competitive elections.
2. The well-established tradition of statism in Russia indicates that the country will have a difficult time developing civil society.
3. Democratic centralism was a key ideology that defined the legitimacy of the USSR.
4. The policy of glasnost proved to be a dangerous policy for the Soviet Union because it encouraged open discussion and criticism of the government.
5. Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Chechnya are examples of cleavages based on ideology.
6. Russia's civil society is less well developed than Britain's.
7. Britain is a unitary state while Russia is a federalist state.
8. Elections by Referenda and to the national legislature take place in both Britain and Russia.
10. The arrangement in Russia Where the businesses and companies that participate in the policy-making process are controlled by the government is called neo-corporatism.
11. Most media outlets are owned by private individuals but the government seriously restricts freedoms of press and speech.
12. The main purpose of the Federation Council is to represent regions in the national legislature.
13. The Duma does not confirm the president's nominations to the Constitutional Court.
14. The main responsibility of the Constitutional Court is to decide the constitutionality of laws and presidential decrees.
15. Member states of both the Confederation of Independent States and the European Union are bound by trade agreements.
16. Russia currently belongs to the Confederation of Independent States, the United Nations, and the G-8.
17. Russia's recent asserstiveness with western countries is best explained by the growing clout of its oil and gas industries.
19. Recently President Putin announced that regional governors would no longer be directly elected, but Would be selected bythe president. The incident that provoked his announcement was the seige of the Beslan School
20. President Putin has not insisted on running for a third term of office.
21. "Shock therapy" is a method of jump-starting the russian economy used by Boris Yeltsin.