Talk:Russia

Viktor Vasnetov

Sorry to interupt, but I couldn't help noticing that the painting of Ivan the Terrible is atributed to Ilya Repin, it is actually a painting made by Viktor Vasnetov

From what I see, it is attributed to Vasnetsov.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:52, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Russian economy is under 17,000 (PPP per capita) everone knows World bank GDP calculations are bogus and crazy inflated.

Just look at all the other sources for GDP of Russia they are all around or under 2 trillion, over 3 trillion is a gross overestimation. People reading this will think Russia is almost as developed as western Europe while in reality its no where near as developed as even poorer EU countries such as Poland or Slovakia. Stop misleading readers and just look at ANY other non bias source. Like this other wiki page (on Russia's economy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.208.182 (talk) 06:55, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

-thats not true, stop being biased poland and slovak republic are eastern european countries and of course therefor just as poor as russia. Russia has actually resources while poland and so on hasnt which is of course logical that it should at least have the same living standard, eastern european countries in the EU are no way near being first world countries just look at how many poles living in the UK now to have a better life. Worldbank data is valued and actually comes always later than imf therefor more detailed. The reason why russia has such a difference in wordbank data is because worldbank updated the conversation rates for all oecd and canidate countries. You can also see at turkey that it has 1.2 trillion dollars gdp with worldbank and also germany has 100 billion more while australia has 100 billion less with worldbank. http://forums.imf.org/showthread.php?t=120335

It was actually asked in the imf forum why there was such a difference in Russias gdp in comparison to worldbank and this is what an official said from IMF

[QUOTE=Angela E.;146087]The WEO uses the PPP exchange rates from the ICP 2005 cycle to estimate PPP GDP in 2005 and then extrapolate the data for other years using relative GDP deflators. On the other hand, the World Bank has updated PPP exchange rate data for the OECD countries using the OECD-Eurostat PPP data completed in 2008. The revised 2008 PPP exchange rate from OECD differs quite significantly from the estimates from the ICP 2005 round, especially for Russia which leads to the discrepancies you've highlighted. The WEO will update the PPP exchange rate when the ICP releases its new estimates some time in 2013.[/QUOTE]

see--Quandapanda (talk) 20:07, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 8 January 2013

For future changes the term country should be replaced with nation, given the cultural and geographical vastness of nation states such as Russia, the term country does not correctly apply. 69.208.92.150 (talk) 16:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: "Future changes" cannot be applied now. In any case, I'm not at all clear that cultural and geographical vastness lends itself more to the word "nation". Feel free to discuss this further, but there's no need to make a formal edit request unless you're requesting a specific, immediate change. Rivertorch (talk) 22:43, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I am pretty sure "country" is a more appropriate term - it is ethnicity-neutral and tied to certain geographical borders. Nation, on the other hand, implies shared descent, culture, history. For instance, "nation-state" implies certain level of homogeneity among its residents. As you said, Russia's residents vary vastly in terms of both culture and ethnicities. The term "country" is more neutral and thus more inclusive.Cosainsé (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I just love Wikipedia's double standards. Beslan Massacre terrorists are not called terrorists, while in article on 9/11 they are called that (and the Massacre is not called massacre). And now this, we can't even be called a nation with our measly 81% of Russians, wow. You're not sure if "cultural and geographical vastness lends itself more to the word "nation"", so how about this sentence in the article about the US: "[United States] is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries." Just wow. And I used to donate money to you guys. 128.68.33.146 (talk) 15:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

First: Don't think that articles are written by some paid employees/editors of wikipedia. You can create account and after some edits/days you can also edit wikipedia protected articles as per WP:MOS. Second: I did search. United States is called 'federal republic' in lead, not 'nation'. Article Russia already calls Russia as 'Nation' at least 4 times. Also there is separate article Russian Nationalism. I also found some news articles like this but can't figure out yet its importance related to the article. Perhaps you should have made your point more clear or you are mistaken. neo (talk) 16:25, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Russia Strategic Partners

EnglishGermanItalianArab like best friends Russian nation, a strategic partner Russia. USA Finland China Eastern European countries Hungary Czech Republic Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Baltics Ukraine Armenia Georgia post-Soviet states - Russofobia tough anywhere. Russofobia-Remained free only Islamic, Arab and African People's Peopl. Arabe's - brought Islam to curls Big bibleische nation today for a strategic Partnere Mosqua power elite. The us explain why Russia main politician's blokieren UN troops for Siria why she arabed cleavage city Brussels in Free City "Babilon - 5" with 40% of People islamique supported secretly, why Russia has not starred in Iraque Krig and Milliard's USD Iraq debt for Russia suspended in air, why could fight Al Qaeda 10 years against U.S. Armi brave, bin Laden fled about 18 years of all western and eastern intelligence agencies always managed on time, etc. United States (Gross domestic product 15,094's trillion USD) Operates approximately 8 Million's Israelites a la small strategic partner, Russia (Gross domestic product 1850's trillion USD) 336 Million's Arabe's a la great partner. Russians about 143 million's. But, with the help of Allah and Mosqua Poltiker's they make. Although, Arabe are often poor but know God's work - pouring blood, take away the life well. Jihad posted there and here, as in Quran - "WITH GOOD AND BLOOD". For the United Russia! Perhaps it is useful to increase a sentence in Article Russia. Adoptleads (talk) 14:54, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Erroneous Statistics

Under the Economy section the following statement is made in regard to Russia: "The country has more higher education graduates than Eurasia".

This doesn't bear scrutiny for a few reasons: 1) According to Wikipedia, Russia is considered part of Eurasia, so it is impossible for a sub-set to be greater than the universal set. 2) Assuming that the reference "The country has more higher education graduates than Eurasia", meant "more than the rest of Eurasia combined"? [148] for this assertion quotes the Huffington Post, which quotes a College Board report. Even compared with Europe this could not be true in absolute terms. Russia's population of 143 Million with e.g. 54% graduates vs European average of 24%, but 739 Million population would dwarf the total number of Russian Grads before accounting for Asia.

I suggest this phrase is amended to "The country has a higher proportion of higher education graduates than any other country in Eurasia". This would then be correct and a lot less misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.88.72.32 (talk) 13:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, this definitely makes sense. I will change it provisionally, but the sources are required anyway.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Vikings were NOT Varangians

Please do not mix 2 totally different tribes; primitive swedish sea pirates, Jarls - Vikings and Slavic Venetic military tribe of Varangian. In Swedish language remained more Slavic elements than vice versa; in Russia remained none of the swedish linguistic elements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.182.121.108 (talk) 09:36, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Please try to support your POV with modern academic sources.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:49, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

photo of Lenin

Perhaps the photo of Lenin should include his birth name as well. It seems like a simple and harmless addition.Paragraphbee (talk) 19:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Russias population

its not 143.3 million but 143.369 now as it increased. See the countries by population and the link provided for russia.--Quandapanda (talk) 04:03, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population#Countries http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/prPopul.xls

This is a distinction without a difference. In the time I used to write this sentence, Russia's population went up or down by a person or two. Oops, another one died. Change the population number - oh, darn, someone was born. Change it to refle- what? someone just died? Well, change the population number againParagraphbee (talk) 20:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 21 April 2013

"Its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water, 20% in Lake Baikal alone." to "Its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid surface fresh water, 20% in Lake Baikal alone." 72.19.113.148 (talk) 19:58, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure I understand this. The article clearly states that the volume of fresh water located in the lakes of Russia is 20% of the total volume of fresh water available in the world. Why do you think this is wrong?--Ymblanter (talk) 20:24, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

I have closed this edit request the above comment indicates there is no consensus for this request. If the OP still wishes to pursue this edit request please reopen it and respond to the question above. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 20:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)