Putin's Wars

Glossary and Abbreviations

ANC

African National Congress

ANI

Associazione Nazionalista Italiana

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BRIC

Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China

BRICS

Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

BRIICS

Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, and South Africa

CFE

Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (USA)

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

CaPRF

Cossack Party of the Russian Federation

Cheka

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Soviet secret service December 1917–1922)

CPRF

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

CSTO

Collective Security Treaty Organization

CU

Customs Union

DMD

Dobrovolnye Molodezhnye Druzhiny (Voluntary Youth Militias)

DPNI

Dvizhenie protiv nelegalnoy immigratsii (“Movement Against Illegal Immigration,” extreme right organization)

EU

European Union

EurAsEc

Eurasian Economic Community

FSB

Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation)

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GRU

Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie (“Main Intelligence Directorate,” Russian Military Foreign Intelligence Agency)

HJ

Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)

IMF

International Monetary Fund

ITAR-TASS

Russian News Agency

KGB

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security,” secret service of the Soviet Union)

KOMSOMOL

Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi (“Communist Youth Union,” youth department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)

KTO

kontrterroristicheskie operatsii (counterterrorist operations)

LDPR

Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia

MAP

Membership Action Plan (NATO)

MID

Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NSDAP

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

PARNAS

Partiya Narodnoy Svobody (“People’s Freedom Party”)

ROC

Russian Orthodox Church

OAS

Organisation de l’armée secrète (French far-right paramilitary organization)

PACE

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

PA CSTO

Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO

PDPA

People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (Communist Party of Afghanistan)

RIA NOVOSTI

Russian News Agency

ROSMOLODEZH

Russian Federal Youth Agency

SA

Sturm Abteilung (paramilitary organization of Hitler’s NSDAP)

SCO

Shanghai Cooperation Organization

SdP

Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party)

SED

Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Communist Party of the German Democratic Republic)

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

USA

United States of America

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

VAD

All-Russian Association of Militias

VTsIOM

All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (official state pollster)

WTO

World Trade Organization