Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism

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