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Official flag of the Russian federation
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Conventional short form:
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Russia (Rossiya)
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Conventional long form:
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Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya)
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Total area (km²): 1)
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17.075.200 km²
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Population: 1)
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140.702.096 (July 2008 est.)
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Capital:
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Moscow
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Government type: 1)
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federation
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Chief of state: 1)
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President Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev (since 7 May 2008)
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Head of government:
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Premier Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (since 8 May 2008)
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Administrative districts:
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The Russian federation exists of 48 provinces (Oblast), 21 republics, 7 regions (Kray), 7 autonomous districts (Okrug), 2 federal cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) and 1 autonomous Jewish areas (Yevrey).
48 provinces (oblastey / singular: oblast):
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- Amur (Blagoveshchensk)
- Arkhangel'sk
- Astrakhan'
- Belgorod
- Bryansk
- Chelyabinsk
- Chita
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Kaliningrad
- Kaluga
- Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)
- Kemerovo
- Kirov
- Kostroma
- Kurgan
- Kursk
- Leningrad
- Lipetsk
- Magadan
- Moskau
- Murmansk
- Nizhniy Novgorod
- Novgorod
- Novosibirsk
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- Omsk
- Orenburg
- Orel
- Penza
- Perm'
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Ryazan'
- Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- Samara
- Saratov
- Smolensk
- Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
- Tambov
- Tomsk
- Tula
- Tver'
- Tyumen'
- Ul'yanovsk
- Vladimir
- Volgograd
- Vologda
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
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21 republics (republisk, singular: republiska): |
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- Adygeya (Maykop)
- Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)
- Bashkortostan (Ufa)
- Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)
- Chechnya (Groznyy)
- Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)
- Dagestan (Makhachkala)
- Ingushetiya (Magas)
- Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)
- Kalmykiya (Elista)
- Karachayevo-Cherskesiya
(Cherdessk)
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- Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)
- Khakasiya (Abakan)
- Komi (Syktyvkar)
- Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)
- Mordoviya (Saransk)
- Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk)
- Nord Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)
- Tatarstan (Kazan')
- Tyva (Kyzyl)
- Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)
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7 regions (krayev, singular: kray) |
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- Altay (Barnaul)
- Khabarovsk
- Krasnodar
- Krasnoyarsk
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- Permskiy
- Primorskiy (Vladivostock)
- Stavropol'
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7 autonomous districts (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular: avtonomnyy okrug) |
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- Aga Buryat (Aginskoye)
- Chukotka (Anadyr')
- Khanty-Mansi
- Koryak (Palana)
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- Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)
- Ust'-Orda Buryat
(Ust'-Ordynskiy)
- Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)
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Official language:
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Russian
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Currency (code):
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Russian Rubel (RUR)
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Country code:
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007
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Country symbol:
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RF
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Internet country code:
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.ru
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National holiday:
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12 June (1990)
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