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Russia & the Eurasian Republics Today

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perestroika   reform in the structure of the economy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in 1985  
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glasnost   the Soviet Union's policy of openness that encouraged people to speak openly about government, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980's  
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coup   a sudden, illegal takeover of government by force  
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federal sytem   a system of government with a strong central government and local government units  
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proportional representation   a system in which a political party gets the same percentage of seats as its percentage of votes  
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revenue   income  
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pipeline   a series of connected pipes used to transport liquids or gases  
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radioactive   giving off energy caused by the breakdown of atoms  
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fallout   radioactive particles from a nuclear explosion that fall through the atmosphere  
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half-life   the time needed for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to decay  
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contaminate   infect; unfit for use because of the presence of unsafe elements  
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