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Russian fighter jets at Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Destination Russia, the world’s russia profile.org country. A virtual travel guide to the Russian Federation.

The country, which is commonly known as Russia, is located partly in eastern Europe and partly in northern Asia, bordering the Arctic Ocean in north. But vast regions of the country were uninhabited or uninhabitable. Moscow is the capital and core of political power and the center of culture, and trade, St. The double-headed eagle is the State Seal of the Russian Federation. The defeat of the Russian Empire in World War I led to the seizure of power by the communists and the formation of the USSR.

Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the communist period. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya. Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean. 8 times the size of the United States.

Climate: Northern continental, from subarctic to subtropical. Religion: Russian Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestant, Buddhist, other. Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, timber, furs, precious and nonferrous metals. View of the Kremlin, with the Kremlin Wall and the Kremlin towers, the ‘fortress inside a city’, is located at the Moskva River in the center of Moscow.

The term Kremlin is also often used to refer to the government of Russia. Russia is a federal republic and in theory a multi-party representative democracy, wherein the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. The President is also the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The official website of Russia’s president, who is again Vladimir Putin. The upper chamber of the Russian parliament. The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is government institution in charge the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.

The website also provides information about Russian diplomatic missions abroad. Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. State Comittee of the Russian Federation on Statistics. Official statistical information on social and economic situation in the CIS countries. Political Map of the Russian Federation. Searchable map and satellite view of Russian Federation. Searchable map and satellite view of the capital, Moscow.

Searchable map and satellite view of Russia’s Winter Olympic capital 2014. Political map of Central and Eastern Europe. Political map of the Baltic Sea region. Map of the Caspian Sea with surrounding Countries. News Like in the US, TV is the main news source. Television is the most powerful sector of the Russian media industry.