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R U S S I A

Russia: An Introduction

T houghts of Russia often bring to mind snow, fur hats and coats, bears, and other symbols of winter. Or else you think of the world power whose leader is in the news so often. As for the weather, it’s true that Russia is situated in the far north and winters can be long, snowy, and frigid, but summers there are as green and sunny as anywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. Russia is a

Words to Understand autocracy  a system of government in which one person has absolute power communism  a political system in which all property is publicly owned taiga  a northern forest composed mostly of evergreen trees tsar  an emperor of early Russia

tundra  treeless land with permanently frozen ground volatile  marked by frequent and often large changes

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