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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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A 1691 French map of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, depicting the city's old town neighborhood and castle, surrounded by the winding Smotrych River. It was originally part of Kievan Rus' and annexed into the First Polish Republic, but at the time of the map's creation, the city was part of the Ottoman Empire. It shortly returned to Poland and later became part of the Russian Empire with the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.
Did you know...
- ...that Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the St Stephan church (pictured) in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?
- ...that forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz?
- ...that Ostap Veresai, a 19th century blind Ukrainian kobzar, performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia?
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- February 13, 1619 - Feodor Romanov, Michael's father, was released from Polish prison and allowed to return to Russia.
- February 22, 1711 - Government reform of Peter I: Peter established the Governing Senate to pass laws in his absence.
- February 27, 1768 - Repnin Sejm: Delegates of the Sejm adopted a treaty ensuring future Russian influence in Polish internal politics.
- February 27, 1919 - Lithuania was absorbed into the Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- February 28, 1609 - Vasili IV of Russia ceded border territory to Sweden in exchange for military aid against the government of False Dmitriy II.
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- 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
- January 16: Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt falls in Pacific Ocean
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