Putin, Russia and the West: Taking Control

1. Arrange the following events in chronological order:
• 9/11
• Putin’s appointment as Prime Minister
• Putin’s summoning of the oligarchs
• Yeltsin’s resignation
• George W. Bush’s inauguration
• The signing of the ABM Treaty
• The passage of the Land Act
• Invasion of Afghanistan
• Khodorkovsky’s presentation on corruption in Russia
• Putin’s cooperation with Germany and France
• Nord-Ost siege
• Khodorkovsky’s persecution and arrest