Question: How are 'dental' sounds pronounced?
Answer: with the tip of the tongue against the teeth rather than against the alveolar ridge

Question: When did Eastern Slavs become the dominant group in the area of Ukraine?
Answer: approximately 1000 AD

Question: When was Kievan Rus' formed?
Answer: about 880

Question: What countries did Kievan Rus' become?
Answer: modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Question: What was the main language in Kievan Rus'?
Answer: Old East Slavic

Question: When did Kievan Rus' adopt Christianity?
Answer: 988

Question: Where did Russian get specialized vocabulary from?
Answer: the languages of Western Europe

Question: What second language was common among Russian nobles by 1800?
Answer: French

Question: What third language was common among Russian nobles by 1800?
Answer: German

Question: Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question: What language often appeared in Russian novels without translation?
Answer: French

Question: Who revolutionized modern Russian?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin

Question: What did Pushkin reject from older Russian?
Answer: archaic grammar and vocabulary

Question: What was 'high style'?
Answer: archaic grammar and vocabulary

Question: What happened to some expressions in Pushkin's writing?
Answer: became proverbs or sayings which can be frequently found even in modern Russian colloquial speech

Question: When did the USSR make Russian the official language?
Answer: 1990

Question: What unofficial status did Russian have in the USSR before 1990?
Answer: the unifying role and superior status

Question: What department is the Research Center for Sociological Research part of?
Answer: Ministry of Education and Science (Russia)

Question: Who wrote "Russian language at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries"?
Answer: A. L. Arefyev

Question: When was "Russian language at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries" published?
Answer: 2012

Question: What does Arefyev say is happening to Russian?
Answer: In the countries of the former Soviet Union the Russian language is gradually being replaced by local languages.

Question: What is the USAF?
Answer: the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces

Question: How many uniformed services are there in the United States?
Answer: seven

Question: When did the USAF split from the US Army?
Answer: 18 September 1947

Question: What act formed the USAF?
Answer: National Security Act of 1947

Question: What is one of the functions of the USAF?
Answer: Nuclear Deterrence Operations

Question: How many departments are there in the Department of Defense?
Answer: three

Question: Who does the Secretary of the Air Force currently report to? 
Answer: Secretary of Defense

Question: What branch of the government must confirm the President's appointment of the Secretary of the Air Force? 
Answer: Senate

Question: Who serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Answer: Chief of Staff of the Air Force

Question: Who assigns combat missions to the Air Force? 
Answer: Secretary of Defense

Question: How many core functions did the Air Force reduce its duties down to recently? 
Answer: twelve

Question: What do these core functions of the Air Force express? 
Answer: contribute to national security

Question: What are not considered doctrinal constructs of the Air Force? 
Answer: core functions

Question: What is the mission set of the Air Force called that includes nuclear strike operations? 
Answer: Assure/Dissuade/Deter

Question: How does the Air Force promote security to its allies? 
Answer: Dissuading others from acquiring or proliferating WMD

Question: What is the US Air Force prepared to do to support its allies? 
Answer: carry out the nuclear strike operations mission

Question: What do potential adversaries threaten that the US Air Force prevents? 
Answer: US national security

Question: What is the definition of a nuclear strike? 
Answer: the ability of nuclear forces to rapidly and accurately strike targets

Question: What action by the US Air Force would deter adversaries from threatening US Security? 
Answer: deployment of nuclear strike capabilities

Question: Who has the authorization in the US to terminate a conflict?
Answer: President

Question: What organization does the US Air Force support on its missions? 
Answer: US NDO objectives

Question: What is one of the areas where the US Air Force might operate its missions? 
Answer: Continental United States

Question: What ensures the safety of nuclear operations? 
Answer: Nuclear surety

Question: What is the mission of the NDO in regards to nuclear security? 
Answer: precise and reliable nuclear operations

Question: What is a Broken Arrow incident in nuclear security? 
Answer: unauthorized or accidental use

Question: What is one of the five functions of NDO support? 
Answer: effective nuclear weapons security

Question: What other US departments does the Air Force coordinate with for nuclear security? 
Answer: Departments of Defense or Energy

Question: What does the abbreviation OCA stand for? 
Answer: Offensive Counterair

Question: What is the function or definition of the OCA according to JP 1-02?
Answer: offensive operations to destroy, disrupt, or neutralize enemy aircraft, missiles, launch platforms

Question: OCA is the preferred method of defeating what kind of attacks? 
Answer: air and missile threats

Question: What is one of the important functions of the OCA in dealing with attacks? 
Answer: suppression/destruction of enemy air defense

Question: What does the abbreviation DCA stand for? 
Answer: Defensive Counterair

Question: What sort of airspace is the DCA designed to protect?
Answer: friendly

Question: What is active defense, according to the functions of the DCA? 
Answer: employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks

Question: What kind of missile defense does active defense protect against, according to the DCA?
Answer: ballistic

Question: What is one of the many ways the DCA utilizes passive defense to protect from enemy attacks? 
Answer: counter-measures

Question: What is the dominance in space of one force over another? 
Answer: Space superiority

Question: What does Space Superiority encompass? 
Answer: localized in time and space, or it may be broad and enduring

Question: Who does space superiority ensure freedom of action in space for? 
Answer: friendly forces

Question: What areas does Space Superiority operate in? 
Answer: land, sea, air, space

Question: What is the definition of Space Control according to the US and its allies? 
Answer: operations to ensure freedom of action in space

Question: What is one of the areas of operation that space control serves to protect? 
Answer: operations conducted to protect friendly space capabilities from attack

Question: What is the operational environment that Space Control depends on? 
Answer: space situational awareness

Question: Who responds with the employment of capabilities where there is a threat?
Answer: Air Force

Question: What is the definition of CND?
Answer: computer network defense

Question: What does Cyberspace defense include?
Answer: CNE, computer network defense (CND), and CNA techniques

Question: What is one of the things that Cyberspace defense highly dependent on? 
Answer: fused all-source intelligence

Question: What branch of the military is in charge of Cyberspace defense? 
Answer: Air Force

Question: What division ensures the Air Force's information integrity and availability? 
Answer: Cyberspace Support

Question: What is ability is critical in Cyberspace Supports mission?
Answer: sustain assigned networks and missions

Question: What important networks is it the function of Cyberspace support to protect?
Answer: C2 networks/communications links and nuclear C2 networks

Question: What techniques does the Cyberspace Support branch of the Air Force use? 
Answer: CNE and CND