The term siloviki refers to
a. the Soviet era personnel system that assured party control of the bureaucracy.
b. the merit-based civil service system introduced under Putin.
c. career bureaucrats in Russia.
d. government officials drawn from the security and intelligence services who were recruited to important political posts under Putin.
e. the bureaucracy of regional governments.
d
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a. makes the powerful more powerful and wealthy. b. actually makes everyone less well off. c. outsources jobs from developing to developed countries. d. prevents poorer countries from expanding their economies.
Foreign aid is defined as ______ and represents ______ of the federal budget.
A. economic or military assistance; a tiny fraction B. participation in the U.N., World Trade Organization, NATO, and the like; approximately half C. economic or military assistance; approximately one-fourth D. financial assistance; approximately one-fourth