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ANC |
African National Congress |
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ANI |
Associazione Nazionalista Italiana |
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BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
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BRIC |
Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China |
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BRICS |
Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa |
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BRIICS |
Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, and South Africa |
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CFE |
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (USA) |
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CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
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CaPRF |
Cossack Party of the Russian Federation |
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Cheka |
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Soviet secret service December 1917–1922) |
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CPRF |
Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
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CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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CSTO |
Collective Security Treaty Organization |
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CU |
Customs Union |
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DMD |
Dobrovolnye Molodezhnye Druzhiny (Voluntary Youth Militias) |
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DPNI |
Dvizhenie protiv nelegalnoy immigratsii (“Movement Against Illegal Immigration,” extreme right organization) |
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EU |
European Union |
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EurAsEc |
Eurasian Economic Community |
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FSB |
Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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GRU |
Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie (“Main Intelligence Directorate,” Russian Military Foreign Intelligence Agency) |
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HJ |
Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) |
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IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
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ITAR-TASS |
Russian News Agency |
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KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security,” secret service of the Soviet Union) |
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KOMSOMOL |
Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi (“Communist Youth Union,” youth department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) |
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KTO |
kontrterroristicheskie operatsii (counterterrorist operations) |
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LDPR |
Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia |
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MAP |
Membership Action Plan (NATO) |
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MID |
Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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NSDAP |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) |
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OPEC |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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PARNAS |
Partiya Narodnoy Svobody (“People’s Freedom Party”) |
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ROC |
Russian Orthodox Church |
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OAS |
Organisation de l’armée secrète (French far-right paramilitary organization) |
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PACE |
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe |
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PA CSTO |
Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO |
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PDPA |
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (Communist Party of Afghanistan) |
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RIA NOVOSTI |
Russian News Agency |
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ROSMOLODEZH |
Russian Federal Youth Agency |
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SA |
Sturm Abteilung (paramilitary organization of Hitler’s NSDAP) |
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SCO |
Shanghai Cooperation Organization |
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SdP |
Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) |
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SED |
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Communist Party of the German Democratic Republic) |
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UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
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USA |
United States of America |
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USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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VAD |
All-Russian Association of Militias |
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VTsIOM |
All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (official state pollster) |
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WTO |
World Trade Organization |