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Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossiya), also the Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), is a Eurasian country extending over much of northern Eurasia. It is a semi-presidential republic comprising of 83 federal subjects. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It is also close to the U.S. state of Alaska, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey and Japan across relatively small stretches of water (the Bering Strait, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and La Pérouse Strait, respectively).
At 17,075,400 square kilometers, Russia is by far the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area; with 143 million people, it is the eighth largest by population. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's greatest reserves of mineral and energy resources, and is considered an energy superpower. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
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Sukhoi Su-27 from the Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing, Kubinka, Russia
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- ...that Russian actor Yevgeny Samoylov (pictured), known for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Dovzhenko in the 1930s, celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002 acting on the stage of the Maly Theatre?
- ...that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
- ...that Alexander Kazhdan, the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula?
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- March 5, 1303 - Daniel of Moscow died. His eldest son Yury succeeded him as Prince of Moscow.
- March 16, 1434 - The army of Yury Dmitrievich defeated the army of Vasily II. The latter fled to Nizhny Novgorod.
- March 18, 1584 - Ivan IV of Russia died of mercury poisoning. The throne fell to his mentally retarded son Feodor I; his son-in-law Boris Godunov took de facto charge of government.
- March 24, 1794 - Kościuszko Uprising: An announcement by Tadeusz Kościuszko sparked a nationalist uprising in Poland.
- March 29, 1809 - Diet of Porvoo: The four Estates of Finland swore allegiance to the Russian crown.
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- February 11: Attention drawn to high suicide rates in Scotland, Russia, Australia
- February 10: Wikinews Shorts: February 10, 2012
- February 8: European cold spell kills hundreds
- February 5: UN resolution on Syria vetoed by Russia and China
- January 24: Russia leases submarine K-152 Nerpa to India for ten years
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