Russian Federation Росси́йская Федера́ция Timeline: Scotland says "Yes"
OTL equivalent: Russia | |||||
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Anthem: "Государственный гимн Российской Федерации" "Gosudarstvennyy gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii" "State Anthem of the Russian Federation |
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Capital (and largest city) | Moscow | ||||
Other cities | Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don | ||||
Official languages | Russian | ||||
Regional languages | 35 | ||||
Ethnic groups (2010) | 81% Russian, 19% Other Ethnicities, 3.7% Tatars, 1.4% Ukrainian, 1.1% Bashkirs, 1% Chuvashes, 11.8% others and unspecified | ||||
Demonym | Russian | ||||
Government | Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic | ||||
- | President | Vladimir Putin | |||
- | Prime Minister | Dmitry Medvedev | |||
- | Chairman of the Federation Council | Valentina Matviyenko | |||
- | Chairman of the State Duma | Sergey Naryshkin | |||
Legislature | Federal Assembly | ||||
- | Upper house | Federation Council | |||
- | Lower house | State Duma | |||
Formation | |||||
- | Tsardom of Russia | 16 January 1547 | |||
- | Russian Empire | 22 October 1721 | |||
- | Russian SFSR | 6 November 1917 | |||
- | Soviet Union | 10 December 1922 | |||
- | Russian Federation | 25 December 1991 | |||
- | Current Constitution | 12 December 1993 | |||
- | Water (%) | 13 |
Russia, officially known as the Russian Federation, is a large trans-continental nation spanning from Eastern Europe to Central and Northeast Asia. It is the largest country in the world and the 9th largest population overall.
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