Russia
Russian Federation
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
CAPITAL: Moscow
FLAG: Equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red.
ANTHEM: Patriotic Song.
MONETARY UNIT: The rouble (R) is a paper currency ...
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Russia
Russia is the largest country in the world. It spans eleven time zones and contains 148 million people, making it sixth largest nation in terms of population. It borders fourteen countries ...
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Russia
POPULATION 144,978,573ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 33.0–40.0 percentMUSLIM 8.0–10.0 percentBUDDHIST 0.7 percentJEWISH 0.7 percentPROTESTANT 0.7 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 0.2 percentOTHER LESS T...
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Russia underwent two revolutions in 1917, the first which led to the dissolution of the Tsarist monarchy and the second which replaced the incumbent Provisional Government with Lenin's Bolshevik par...
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Russia's Lower Classes
The spring and early summer of 1917 was a very desperate time for Russia's lower classes because of the fact that they were finally fed up with their lifestyle and wanted chan...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the hist...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the histo...
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Area: 17,075,400 sq km (6,592,800 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 142,394,000Capital:
Moscow
Chief of state:
President
Vladimir
Putin
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Mikhail
Fradkov
Domestic...
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Missile Defense: Vladimir Putin thinks the U.S. should station part of its missile shield on Russian soil. Given his country's increasingly belligerent ways, that doesn't strike us as a very good i...
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Nuclear Politics: Russia's refusal to send fuel to Iran for nuclear enrichment pulls the rug out from under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions. A sign Russia's finally getting serious?Iran was...
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Democracy: In the wake of communism and gangsterism, one might expect Russians to be cynical about democracy. But a weekend crackdown on Russia's most serious democrats suggests they have a lot of ...
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Russia has said that only 70 OSCE election observers can monitor its upcoming parliamentary vote and has imposed restrictions on how long they can stay, the organization said Wednesday, describing ...
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Russians voted Sunday in scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition forces are being frozen out of the country's politics.Although two mainstream parties and a smattering of sm...
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International Law: Russia's flag-planting on the Arctic seabed may seem like a stunt fueled by a return to czarist impulses. But under a treaty the U.S. now supports, the spurious claim could be le...
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Russia's foreign minister reiterated his country's opposition to a U.S.-backed plan granting independence to the breakaway province of Kosovo, and warned Thursday that imposing the solution is "abs...
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Russian prosecutors are looking into the possibility that police officials in Chechnya were involved in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who exposed rights abuses in the war-battered r...
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Police evicted a handful of families Wednesday from temporary homes set up to house them after they were displaced 15 years ago by fighting in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a human rights activ...
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