Russia

Russia, anaa de Russian Federation, be a country wey dey span Eastern Europe den North Asia. E be de largest country insyd de world, wey e dey extend across eleven time zones; wey dey share land borders plus fourteen countries. Russia be de most populous country insyd Europe den de ninth-most populous country insyd de world. E be a highly urbanised country, wey sixteen of ein urban areas get more dan 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, de most populous metropolitan area insyd Europe,be de capital den largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg be ein second-largest city den cultural centre.

E be a permanent member of de United Nations Security Council; a member state of de G20, SCO, BRICS, APEC, OSCE, den WTO; den de leading member state of post-Soviet organisations such as CIS, CSTO, den EAEU. Russia be home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

 Demographics 
Largest cities anaa towns insyd Russia

2025 estimate"Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2025 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 27 April 2025.RankNameFederal subjectPop.RankNameFederal subjectPop.1MoscowMoscow13,274,28511SamaraSamara Oblast1,154,2232Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg5,652,92212Rostov-on-DonRostov Oblast1,143,1233NovosibirskNovosibirsk Oblast1,637,26613OmskOmsk Oblast1,101,3674YekaterinburgSverdlovsk Oblast1,548,18714VoronezhVoronezh Oblast1,041,7225KazanTatarstan1,329,82515PermPerm Krai1,027,5186KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk Krai1,211,75616VolgogradVolgograd Oblast1,012,2197Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Oblast1,198,24517SaratovSaratov Oblast886,1658ChelyabinskChelyabinsk Oblast1,176,77018TyumenTyumen Oblast872,0779UfaBashkortostan1,166,09819TolyattiSamara Oblast662,68310KrasnodarKrasnodar Krai1,154,88520MakhachkalaDagestan625,322

 Read further 
 Bartlett, Roger P. A history of Russia  (2005) online
 Breslauer, George W. and Colton, Timothy J. 2017.  Russia Beyond Putin (Daedalus) online
 Brown, Archie, ed. The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1982) online
 Florinsky, Michael T. ed. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961).
 Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (2021) excerpt
 Greene, by Samuel A. and Graeme B. Robertson. Putin v. the People: the Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale UP, 2019) excerpt
 Hosking, Geoffrey A. Russia and the Russians: a history (2011) online
 Kort, Michael. A Brief History of Russia (2008) online
 Lowe, Norman. Mastering Twentieth Century Russian History (2002) excerpt
 Millar, James R. ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vol 2003). online
 Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (9th ed. 2018) 9th edition 1993 online
 Rosefielde, Steven. Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy (2020) excerpt
 Service, Robert. A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century (Harvard UP, 3rd ed., 2009) excerpt
 Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2014) excerpt; 800 pp covering art, literature, music, film, media, crime, politics, business, and economics.
 Walker, Shauin. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts Of the Past (2018, Oxford UP) excerpt
 References 

 External links 

Government
 Official Russian governmental portal
 Chief of State and Cabinet Members (archived 4 October 2013)

General information

 Russia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
 Russia at UCB Libraries GovPubs (archived 22 October 2008)
 Russia from BBC News
 Russia at Encyclopædia Britannica
 Key Development Forecasts for Russia from International Futures

Other
 Post-Soviet Problems from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives (archived 15 December 2012


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