[​b]Russia, or The Russian Federation[​e] (Russian Federation), is a country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Russia is the largest state in the world, its territory within the constitutional borders, with the territory of most of the Crimea, the annexation of which has not received international recognition, is 17,125,191 km²

#Geographical data:. The population of the country within the same boundaries is 145,557,576 people. (2022; 9th place in the world) Go to the section "population #Number, settlement".

Moscow the capital. The state language throughout the country is Russian, in a number of regions of Russia their own state and official languages ​​have also been established. The monetary unit is the Russian ruble.

Russia is a multinational state with a wide ethno-cultural diversity. According to the results of the 2010 Russian census, as well as the 2014 Crimea and Sevastopol censuses, representatives of over 190 nationalities live in the country, among which Russians make up over 80%, and over 99.4% of Russians speak Russian. Most of the population (about 75%) religiously identify themselves as Orthodox, which makes Russia the country with the largest Orthodox population in the world.

Russia is a federal presidential-parliamentary republic[​4]. Since December 31, 1999 (with a break in 2008-2012, when Dmitry Medvedev was president), Vladimir Putin has been the president of the Russian Federation. Since January 16, 2020, Mikhail Mishustin has been in the position of Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Russia borders on 18 states of the world (sixteen by land and two by sea). The Russian Federation consists of 85 constituent entities[​b], 46 of which are called regions, 22 republics, 9 territories, 3 federal cities, 4 autonomous districts and 1 autonomous region. In total, there are about 157 thousand settlements in the country.

Russia is a nuclear power. One of the leading space powers in the world. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power; one of the modern great powers of the world. Russia is also a member of a number of international organizations: the UN, G20, EAEU, CIS, CSTO, WTO, OSCE, SCO, APEC, BRICS, IOC and others.[​/b]
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