| Russian Democratic Federal Republic Российская Демократическая Федеративная Республика Timeline: Triangles and Crosses
Russia OTL equivalent: Russia minus Caucasus, Kalmykia and Primorye | ||||||
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| Anthem: Anthem of Free Russia |
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| Capital | Moscow | |||||
| Other cities | Saint Petersburg Novosibirsk Sverdlovsk |
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| Official languages | Russian | |||||
| Religion | Secular state | |||||
| Demonym | Russian | |||||
| Organizations | Society of Nations, ASEAN, Shangai Cooperation Organisation, G20, Council of Europe, APEC, OSCE, WTO, CSTO, EEU. | |||||
| Government | Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic | |||||
| - | President | Sergey Mironov | ||||
| - | Premier | Pavel Grudinin | ||||
| - | Chairman of the State Duma | Nikolai Levichev | ||||
| - | Chairman of the Federation Council | Vyacheslav Volodin | ||||
| Legislature | Federal Assembly | |||||
| - | Upper house | State Duma | ||||
| - | Lower house | Federation Council | ||||
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| - | Established | 7 November 1917 | ||||
| - | Civil War | 30 December 1922 | ||||
| - | Fascist Russia | 5 May 1929 | ||||
| - | World War II | 1939–1946 | ||||
| - | Russian Federation | 30 November 1946 | ||||
| - | Current constitution | 12 December 1993 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 22,800,000 km2 8,803,129 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | 2020 estimate | 141,054,637 | ||||
| Gini (2017) | 42.1 (medium) | |||||
| HDI (2018) | 0.824 (very high) | |||||
| Currency | Russian ruble (₽) (RUB) |
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| Time zone | UTC+2 to +12 | |||||
| Date formats | dd/mm/yyyy | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Calling code | +7 | |||||
Russia, officially the Russian Democratic Federal Republic (Russian: Союз Советских Суверенных Pеспублик), is a sovereign state in Eurasia. With 17,125,191 square kilometers, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, and the tenth by population. Russia extends across eleven time zones and borders twelve sovereign nations, the most of any country in the world. Its capital is Moscow, the largest city within Europe.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. The medieval state of Kievan Rus' arose in the 9th century. In 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire. Rus' ultimately disintegrated, and among its principalities, the Grand Duchy of Moscow rose. By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to evolve into the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution, the country experienced a brief democratic era until Alexander Kolchak's seizure of power in 1929 which led to the establishment of a dictatorship, World War II and the Holodomor.
After the World War II, a few skirmishes happened between remaining pro-Kolchak armies and the allied-occupied government, leading to the dissolution of the Russian Empire into several countries and satellite states. During the Cold War, Russia formed a rigid isolationist policy generally neutral to or at odds with the United Commonwealth and Germany, such as entering the Space Race against both countries. Following years of political arrest against the isolationism, Russia adopted a new constitution which changed its foreign relations.
With an extensive territory comprehending Northern Asia and Eastern Europe, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, the Don Republic, North Caucasus, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China.
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