Talk:Russia

Falsification

This map ([1]) falsifies history. Kievan Rus disintegrated before the advent of cities Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod. The name " Belgorod Dnestrovsky" appeared in the Soviet Union (1944). The name "Vladimir Volynsky" -1795 year. ... ... Michaila vnuk (talk) 08:07, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

There is a FALSE "fact" in the ancient history on the Russia page................and because of the "Semi-protected" lockdowns, I am unable to CORRECT the mistake. It was NOT the Mongols, nor the Grand Duchy of Moscow that "gradually unified" the many tribal territories of early Russia - it was a certain Viking leader who was KNOWN for his even temper and fairness. The warring Russian warlords - themselves - asked this Viking leader to help them settle their differences and establish peace among the Russian tribes.......and he DID !.

Also, the NAME of Russia does NOT come from Early Slavic.........the name comes from "Rosi", a Viking word meaning "rowing" / "seafarer". Another source of the word "Russia" comes from the ancient Celtic word "rusi" which means "river"........because both the Vikings AND the ancient Celts entered and explored Russia before it even became Russia. The Russian people are NOT just from the Slavics - they are ALSO from the Vikings AND the Celts. My sources for this info: American Heritage Dictionary (which also gives the origins of nearly every word in the dictionary), and TWO books about the history of Ireland. I ended up purchasing BOTH of them because they each have historical facts the other doesn't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coastalwestgirl (talk • contribs) 20:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Who really cares with how things are going right now in Russia, but celts has really nothing to do there. I can't find any links, but I recall that there has been some articles by russian historians, that Novgorod was established by vikings & prussians(vikings were intermarried there - just like later in Britain) - despite that prussians were westernmost of baltics they have some linguistic similarities with slavs, that other surviving baltics don't have, for example root Nov- is also used in their language. Prussian name might as well turn later to russians, or it might be way around, that prussians got their name by vikings and is just local variant of pronouncation. North german roðr means rowers - just what vikings did on sea.92.22.50.162 (talk) 21:44, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Religion statistics

Regarding the readdition of these changes: as I said in my edit summary, I question not the precision but the reliability of the replacement sources. Considering that the replacement sources show markedly different figures than the previous ones, I think the question is worth exploring. The previous source (CIA World Factbook) is a known quantity, widely used across Wikipedia for demographic data. The first of the replacement sources is a relatively new NGO whose standards, methodology, and agenda are unclear; the second appears to be to a news site. I'm not going to revert again at this point, but the burden is on the user adding new content or replacing sourced content to justify inclusion, and simply bludgeoning the content into the article isn't good practice. Please discuss first. Other users, please comment. Rivertorch (talk) 19:12, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Query begun at the relevant noticeboard. Rivertorch (talk) 05:58, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Based on the response at RSN, I am tagging the two sources {{verify reliability and {{verify source}}, respectively. This should not be construed as meaning the sources aren't reliable or don't support the listed stats, only that their reliability and ability to support the content have not been established. Rivertorch (talk) 20:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Russia now is 5th largest economy 2013

Time to update Russia's GDP, it's 5th now[2] and probably will be 4th or 3rd by 2015. We need to correct this.--82.212.94.58 (talk) 20:18, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

According to IMF Russia is still in 6th place in 2012 - Purer13 (talk) 16:20, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

apologies to wiki, no direct message bar in ru-ss so posting here, possible terror attack Russia

as i read about islamists calling on attcks to russian oil lines, cars in the distance hirn and my mother starts scrubbing the floor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.170.116 (talk) 10:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 February 2014

Section "Language":

Change "make their native language official" to "make other languages official".

Republics (political constructs) do not have "native languages" as they are not living entities.

174.19.165.103 (talk) 22:02, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

• I have used the language of the Constitution - republics have the right to establish their own state languages. Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:40, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 February 2014

Home cooking!

64.187.166.110 (talk) 22:50, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 23:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Federal University

Should there be an incorporation of the difference between a Federal University and a Private University? Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Federal_University (Named after Boris Yeltsin) Twillisjr (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Recent events

I just added a (recentism) tag to the article because the section that encompasses the recent crisis in Crimea seems to be longer or just as long as the section that discusses the entire 20 year Russian Republic. Let's try to keep events in their historical context. JOJ ^Hutton 12:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

I agree. But my edit was reverted. --TarzanASG (talk) 12:58, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Well hopefully we can get more eyes on this, but even a few experienced editors with knowledge of Wikipedia policies and guidelines cannot keep up with tons of inexperienced editors and ips. JOJ ^Hutton 13:02, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Crimea

Map needs updating to include it. 71.173.29.187 (talk) 16:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Patriotism

I LOVE MY COUNTRY, POCCNR FOREVER!!!!!!! User: ME