Russia

The Russian Federation ({{lang-ru|??????????? ??????????}}, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km² (6,595,600 mi²), it is the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada. It ranks eighth in the world in population. It shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from NW to SE): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (only through Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with the United States, Canada and Japan.

External links

Government resources

• Duma - Official site of the parliamentary lower house (in Russian)
• Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United States
• Federative Council - Official site of the parliamentary upper house
• Gov.ru - Official governmental portal (in Russian)
• Kremlin - Official presidential site (in English)
• Official site: Federal Cadaster Center of Russia - Administrative maps of Russia (legends in Russian)
• Russia Energy Resources and Industry from U.S. Department of Energy
• Russian Economy: Bank of Finland
• U.S. State Department Consular Information Sheet: Russia
• Webcam in Russia

General information

• Russia Profile
• Country Profile by BBC
• Country Facts by CIA
• German-Russian Exchange NGO that connects volunteers to ngo's in Russia (not only Germans)
• Government links
• Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey
• Johnson's Russia List Archive
• Russia News
• Russian Federal Districts (legends in English)
• The Russia Journal - An independent news and analysis source from Russia.
• English Edition of Pravda