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[“federal semi-presidential republic”]
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/ˈrʌʃə/
‘russian’ –> pосси́я / rossija
IPA – [rɐˈsʲijə]
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(from the greek –> Ρωσία — ‘Rus’)
(officially known as the russian federation)
(‘russian’ –> Росси́йская Федера́ция / Rossijskaja Federacija)
IPA -> [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə])
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(“russia” , is a ‘trans-continental country’ in ‘eurasia’)
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(at ‘17,075,200 square kilometers (/ ‘6,592,800 square miles), ‘russia’ is the largest country in the world, covering more than 1/8 of earth’s ‘inhabited land area’, and the ‘9th most populous’, with over ‘146.6 million people’ at the end of ‘march 2016’)
(the ‘european western’ part of the country is much more ‘populated’ and ‘urbanized’ than the ‘east’, about 77% of the population live in “european russia”)
(russia’s capital ‘moscow’ is 1 of the largest cities in the world, other ‘major urban centers’ include ‘saint petersburg’, ‘novosibirsk’, ‘yekaterinburg’, ‘nizhny novgorod’, and ‘samara’)
(extending across the entirety of ‘northern asia’ and much of ‘eastern europe’, ‘russia’ spans ’11 time zones’ and incorporates a wide range of ‘environments’ and ‘landforms’)
(from ‘northwest’ to ‘southeast’, ‘russia’ shares ‘land borders’ with ‘norway’, ‘finland’, ‘estonia’, ‘latvia’, ‘lithuania’, and ‘poland’ (both with ‘kaliningrad oblast’), ‘belarus’, ‘ukraine’, ‘georgia’, ‘azerbaijan’, ‘kazakhstan’, ‘china’, ‘mongolia’, and ‘north korea’)
(it shares ‘maritime borders’ with ‘japan’ by the ‘sea of okhotsk’ and the US state of ‘alaska’ across the ‘bering strait’)
(founded and ruled by a ‘varangian’ warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of ‘rus’ arose in the ‘9th century’)
(in ‘988’, it adopted ‘orthodox christianity’ from the ‘byzantine empire’, beginning the synthesis of ‘byzantine’ and ‘slavic’ cultures that defined ‘russian culture’ for the next ‘millennium’)
Rus’ ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus’ lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde, and came to dominate the cultural and political legacy of Kievan Rus’.
(by the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east)
(following the ‘Russian Revolution’, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world’s first constitutionally socialist state)
The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War.
(the ‘soviet era’ saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world’s first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space)
By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world’s second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
Following the partition of the Soviet Union in 1991, fourteen independent republics emerged from the USSR; as the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic, the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and sole successor state of the Soviet Union.
It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015.
(russia’s extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally)
(the country is 1 of the 5 recognized “nuclear weapons states” and possesses the largest stockpile of “weapons of mass destruction”)
(‘russia’ is a ‘great power’ and a permanent member of the “united nations security council”, as well as a member of
the G20,
the Council of Europe,
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),
the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO),
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
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as well as being the leading member of
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),
the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
and 1 of the 5 members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with ‘Armenia’, ‘belarus’, ‘kazakhstan’, and ‘kyrgyzstan’)
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👈👈👈☜*“EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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