Russia

Country spanning Europe and Asia

For other uses, see Russia (disambiguation).

Russian Federation

Российская Федерация (Russian)

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Anthem:
Государственный гимн Российской Федерации
Gosudarstvennyy gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii
"State Anthem of the Russian Federation"

Recognised territory of Russia

Claimed but internationally unrecognised[a]

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Capital

and largest city

| Moscow
55°45′21″N 37°37′02″E﻿ / ﻿55.75583°N 37.61722°E﻿ / 55.75583; 37.61722
Official and national language| Russian[3]
Recognised regional languages| 35 regional official languages[4]
Ethnic groups

(2021; including Crimea)[5]

* 71.7% Russian
* 3.2% Tatar
* 1.1% Bashkir
* 1.1% Chechen
* 11.3% other
* 11.6% not reported

Demonym(s)| Russian
Government| Federal semi-presidential republic[6] under an authoritarian[7][8] dictatorship[9][10]

• President

| Vladimir Putin

• Prime Minister

| Mikhail Mishustin
Legislature| Federal Assembly

• Upper house

| Federation Council

• Lower house

| State Duma
Formation

• Kievan Rus'

| 882

• Vladimir-Suzdal

| 1157

• Principality of Moscow

| 1282

• Tsardom of Russia

| 16 January 1547

• Russian Empire

| 2 November 1721

• Monarchy abolished

| 15 March 1917

• Soviet Union

| 30 December 1922

• Declaration of State
Sovereignty

| 12 June 1990

• Russian Federation

| 12 December 1991

• Current constitution

| 12 December 1993

• Union State formed

| 8 December 1999
Area

• Total

| 17,098,246 km2 (6,601,670 sq mi)[12] (within internationally recognised borders)

• Water (%)

| 13[11] (including swamps)
Population

• 2025 estimate

* 146,028,325[13]
* (including Crimea)[14]
* 143,569,049
* (excluding Crimea)

(9th)

• Density

| 8.4/km2 (21.8/sq mi) (187th)
GDP (PPP)| 2025 estimate

• Total

|  $7.192 trillion[15] (4th)

• Per capita

|  $49,383[15] (43rd)
GDP (nominal)| 2025 estimate

• Total

|  $2.076 trillion[15] (11th)

• Per capita

|  $14,258[15] (65th)
Gini (2020)|  36.0[16]
medium inequality
HDI (2023)|  0.832[17]
very high (64th)
Currency| Russian ruble (₽) (RUB)
Time zone| UTC+2 to +12
Calling code| +7
ISO 3166 code| RU
Internet TLD|

* .ru
* .рф
* .su

Russia,[b] or the Russian Federation,[c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, and extends across eleven time zones, sharing land borders with fourteen countries.[d] With over 140 million people, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous in the world. It is a highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and cultural centre.

Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the Lower Paleolithic. The East Slavs emerged as a recognised group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire. Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated; the Grand Duchy of Moscow led the unification of Russian lands, leading to the proclamation of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547. By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through conquest, annexation, and the efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia's monarchic rule was abolished and eventually replaced by the Russian SFSR—the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. The Soviet Union underwent rapid industrialisation in the 1930s, amidst the deaths of millions under Joseph Stalin's rule, and later played a decisive role for the Allies in World War II by leading large-scale efforts on the Eastern Front. With the onset of the Cold War, it competed with the United States for ideological dominance and international influence. The Soviet era of the 20th century saw some of the most significant Russian technological achievements, including the first human-made satellite and the first human expedition into outer space.

In 1991, the Russian SFSR emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as the Russian Federation. A new constitution was adopted, which established a federal semi-presidential system. Since the turn of the century, Russia's political system has been dominated by Vladimir Putin, under whom the country has experienced democratic backsliding and become an authoritarian dictatorship. Russia has been militarily involved in a number of conflicts in former Soviet states and other countries, including its war with Georgia in 2008 and its war with Ukraine since 2014. The latter has involved the internationally unrecognised annexations of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea in 2014 and four other regions in 2022, during an ongoing invasion.

Russia is generally considered a great power and is a regional power, possessing the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and having the third-highest military expenditure in the world. It has a high-income economy, which is the eleventh-largest in the world by nominal GDP and fourth-largest by PPP, relying on its vast mineral and energy resources, which rank as the second-largest in the world for oil and natural gas production. However, Russia ranks very low in international measurements of democracy, human rights and freedom of the press, and also has high levels of perceived corruption. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council; a member state of the G20, SCO, BRICS, APEC, OSCE, and WTO; and the leading member state of post-Soviet organisations such as CIS, CSTO, and EAEU. Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

## Etymology

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Main article: Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English name Russia first appeared in the 14th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin: Russia, used in the 11th century and frequently in 12th-century British sources, in turn derived from Russi, 'the Russians' and the suffix -ia.[19][20]

There are several words in Russian which translate to "Russians" in English. The noun and adjective русский, russkiy refers to ethnic Russians. The adjective российский, rossiiskiy denotes Russian citizens regardless of ethnicity. The same applies to the more recently coined noun россиянин, rossiianyn, in the sense of citizen of the Russian state.[21][22]

The oldest endonyms used were Rus' (Русь) and the "Russian land" (Русская земля, Russkaya zemlya).[23] According to the Primary Chronicle, the word Rus' is derived from the Rus' people, who were a Swedish tribe, and from where the three original members of the Rurikid dynasty came from.[24] The Finnish word for Swedes, ruotsi, has the same origin.[25] In modern historiography, the early medieval East Slavic state is usually referred to as Kievan Rus', named after its capital city.[26] Another Medieval Latin name for Rus' was Ruthenia.[27]

In Russian, the current name of the country, Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek name Ρωσία (Rosía).[28] The name Росия (Rosiya) was first attested in 1387.[29] The name Rossiya appeared in Russian sources in the 15th century and began to replace the vernacular Rus' during the rise of Moscow as the centre of a unified Russian state.[30] However, until the end of the 17th century, the country was more often referred to by its inhabitants as Rus', the "Russian land" (Russkaya zemlya), or the "Muscovite state" (Moskovskoye gosudarstvo), among other variations.[31][21]

In 1721, Peter the Great proclaimed the Russian Empire (Rossiyskaya imperiya).[31] The name Rossiya was used as the common designation for the multinational Russian Empire and then for the modern Russian state.[32] Rossiya is distinguished from the ethnonym russkiy, as it refers to a supranational identity, including ethnic Russians.[32] After the Russian Revolution and the proclamation of the Russian SFSR in 1918, the "Russian" in the title of the state was Rossiyskaya, rather than Russkaya, as the former denoted a multinational state, while the latter had ethnic dimensions.[33] In modern Russian, the name Rus' is still used in poetry or prose to refer to either the older Russia or an imagined essence of Russia.[26]

## History

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Main article: History of Russia

### Early history

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Further information: Ancient Greek colonies, Early Slavs, Huns, Turkic expansion, and Prehistory of Siberia

See also: Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Uralic homeland

The first human settlement on Russia dates back to the Oldowan period in the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia.[34] Flint tools, some 1.5 million years old, have been discovered in the North Caucasus.[35] Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195–122,700 years ago.[36] Fossils of Denny, an archaic human hybrid that was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, and lived some 90,000 years ago, was also found within the latter cave.[37] Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave.[38]

The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia.[39] The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at Kostyonki–Borshchyovo,[40] and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years ago—both in western Russia.[41] Humans reached Arctic Russia at least 40,000 years ago, in Mamontovaya Kurya.[42] Ancient North Eurasian populations from Siberia genetically similar to Mal'ta–Buret' culture and Afontova Gora were an important genetic contributor to Ancient Native Americans and Eastern Hunter-Gatherers.[43]

Bronze Age spread of Yamnaya Steppe pastoralist ancestry between 3300 and 1500 BC,[44] including the Afanasievo culture of southern Siberia

The Kurgan hypothesis places the Volga-Dnieper region of southern Russia and Ukraine as the urheimat of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.[45] Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of Ukraine and Russia spread Yamnaya ancestry and Indo-European languages across large parts of Eurasia.[46][47] Nomadic pastoralism developed in the Pontic–Caspian steppe beginning in the Chalcolithic.[48] Remnants of these steppe civilisations were discovered in places such as Ipatovo,[48] Sintashta,[49] Arkaim,[50] and Pazyryk,[51] which bear the earliest known traces of horses in warfare.[49] The genetic makeup of speakers of the Uralic language family in northern Europe was shaped by migration from Siberia that began at least 3,500 years ago.[52]

In the 3rd to 4th centuries CE, the Gothic kingdom of Oium existed in southern Russia, which was later overrun by Huns. Between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE, the Bosporan Kingdom, which was a Hellenistic polity that succeeded the Greek colonies,[53] was also overwhelmed by nomadic invasions led by warlike tribes such as the Huns and Eurasian Avars.[54] The Khazars, who were of Turkic origin, ruled the steppes between the Caucasus in the south, to the east past the Volga river basin, and west as far as Kyiv on the Dnieper river until the 10th century.[55] After them came the Pechenegs who created a large confederacy, which was subsequently taken over by the Cumans and the Kipchaks.[56]

The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe c. 1500 years ago.[57] The East Slavs gradually settled western Russia (approximately between modern Moscow and Saint-Petersburg) in two waves: one moving from Kiev towards present-day Suzdal and Murom and another from Polotsk towards Novgorod and Rostov.[58] Prior to Slavic migration, that territory was populated by Finno-Ugrian peoples. From the 7th century onwards, the incoming East Slavs slowly assimilated the native Finno-Ugrians.[59][60]

### Kievan Rus'

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Main articles: Rus' Khaganate; Kievan Rus'; and List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

Kievan Rus' after the Council of Liubech in 1097

The establishment of the first East Slavic states in the 9th century coincided with the arrival of Varangians, the Vikings who ventured along the waterways extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.[59][61] According to the Primary Chronicle, a Varangian from the Rus' people, named Rurik, was elected ruler of Novgorod in 862. In 882, his successor Oleg ventured south and conquered Kiev, which had been previously paying tribute to the Khazars.[59][61] Rurik's son Igor and Igor's son Sviatoslav subsequently subdued all local East Slavic tribes to Kievan rule, destroyed the Khazar Khaganate,[62] and launched several military expeditions to Bulgaria, Byzantium and Persia.[63][64]

In the 10th to 11th centuries, Kievan Rus' became one of the largest and most prosperous states in Europe. The reigns of Vladimir the Great (980–1015) and his son Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium, and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda.[59] The age of feudalism and decentralisation had come, marked by constant in-fighting between members of the Rurik dynasty that ruled Kievan Rus' collectively. Kiev's dominance waned, to the benefit of Vladimir-Suzdal in the north-east, the Novgorod Republic in the north, and Galicia-Volhynia in the south-west.[59] By the 12th century, Kiev lost its pre-eminence and Kievan Rus' had fragmented into different principalities.[65] Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky sacked Kiev in 1169 and made Vladimir his base,[65] leading to political power being shifted to the north-east.[59]

Led by Prince Alexander Nevsky, Novgorodians repelled the invading Swedes in the Battle of the Neva in 1240,[66] as well as the Germanic crusaders in the Battle on the Ice in 1242.[67]

Kievan Rus' finally fell to the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240, which resulted in the sacking of Kiev and other cities, as well as the death of a major part of the population.[59] The invaders, later known as Tatars, formed the state of the Golden Horde, which ruled over Russia for the next two centuries.[68] Only the Novgorod Republic escaped foreign occupation after it agreed to pay tribute to the Mongols.[59] Galicia-Volhynia would later be absorbed by Lithuania and Poland, while the Novgorod Republic continued to prosper in the north. In the northeast, the Byzantine-Slavic traditions of Kievan Rus' were adapted to form the Russian autocratic state.[59]

### Grand Principality of Moscow

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Main article: Grand Principality of Moscow

Sergius of Radonezh blessing Dmitry Donskoy in Trinity Sergius Lavra, before the Battle of Kulikovo, depicted in a painting by Ernst Lissner

The destruction of Kievan Rus' saw the eventual rise of the Grand Principality of Moscow, initially a part of Vladimir-Suzdal.[59]: 11–20 While still under the domain of the Mongol-Tatars and with their connivance, Moscow began to assert its influence in the region in the early 14th century,[69] gradually becoming the leading force in the "gathering of the Russian lands".[59][70] When the seat of the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church moved to Moscow in 1325, its influence increased.[71] Moscow's last rival, the Novgorod Republic, prospered as the chief fur trade centre and the easternmost port of the Hanseatic League.[72]

Led by Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow, the united army of Russian principalities inflicted a milestone defeat on the Mongol-Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.[59] Moscow gradually absorbed its parent duchy and surrounding principalities, including formerly strong rivals such as Tver and Novgorod.[59]

Ivan III ("the Great") threw off the control of the Golden Horde and gained sovereignty over the ethnically Russian lands;[59] he later adopted the title of sovereign of all Russia.[73] After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire. Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russia's, coat-of-arms.[59] Vasili III united all of Russia by annexing the last few independent Russian states in the early 16th century.[74]

### Tsardom of Russia

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Main article: Tsardom of Russia

See also: Moscow, third Rome

Ivan IV was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then Tsar of Russia until his death in 1584.

In development of the Third Rome ideas, the grand prince Ivan IV ("the Terrible") was officially crowned as the first tsar of all Russia in 1547. The tsar promulgated a new code of laws (Sudebnik of 1550), established the first Russian feudal representative body (the Zemsky Sobor), revamped the military, curbed the influence of the clergy, and reorganised local government.[59] During his long reign, Ivan nearly doubled the already large Russian territory by annexing the three Tatar khanates: Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga,[75] and the Khanate of Sibir in southwestern Siberia. Ultimately, by the end of the 16th century, Russia expanded east of the Ural Mountains.[76] However, the Tsardom was weakened by the long and unsuccessful Livonian War against the coalition of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (later the united Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), the Kingdom of Sweden, and Denmark–Norway for access to the Baltic coast and sea trade.[77] In 1572, an invading army of Crimean Tatars were thoroughly defeated in the crucial Battle of Molodi.[78]

Feodor Godunov's map of Russia, as published by Hessel Gerritsz in 1614

The death of Ivan's sons marked the end of the ancient Rurik dynasty in 1598, and in combination with the disastrous famine of 1601–1603, led to a civil war, the rule of pretenders, and foreign intervention during the Time of Troubles in the early 17th century.[79] The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, taking advantage, occupied parts of Russia, extending into the capital Moscow.[80] In 1612, the Poles were forced to retreat by the Russian volunteer corps, led by merchant Kuzma Minin and prince Dmitry Pozharsky.[81] The Romanov dynasty acceded to the throne in 1613 by the decision of the Zemsky Sobor, and the country started its gradual recovery from the crisis.[82]

Russia continued its territorial growth through the 17th century, which was the age of the Cossacks.[83] In 1654, the Ukrainian leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, offered to place Ukraine under the protection of the Russian tsar, Alexis, whose acceptance of this offer led to another Russo-Polish War. Ultimately, Ukraine was split along the Dnieper, leaving the eastern part, (Left-bank Ukraine and Kiev) under Russian rule.[84] In the east, the rapid Russian exploration and colonisation of vast Siberia continued, hunting for valuable furs and ivory. Russian explorers pushed eastward primarily along the Siberian River Routes, and by the mid-17th century, there were Russian settlements in eastern Siberia, on the Chukchi Peninsula, along the Amur River, and on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.[83] In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov became the first European to navigate through the Bering Strait.[85]

### Imperial Russia

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Main article: Russian Empire

Under Peter the Great, Russia was proclaimed an empire in 1721, and established itself as one of the European great powers. Ruling from 1682 to 1725, Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700–1721), securing Russia's access to the sea and sea trade. In 1703, on the Baltic Sea, Peter founded Saint Petersburg as Russia's new capital. Throughout his rule, sweeping reforms were made, which brought significant Western European cultural influences to Russia.[59] He was succeeded by Catherine I (1725–1727), followed by Peter II (1727–1730), and Anna. The reign of Peter I's daughter Elizabeth in 1741–1762 saw Russia's participation in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). During the conflict, Russian troops overran East Prussia, reaching Berlin.[86] However, upon Elizabeth's death, all these conquests were returned to the Kingdom of Prussia by pro-Prussian Peter III of Russia.[87]

Expansion and territorial evolution of Russia from the coronation of Ivan IV to the death of Peter I

Catherine II ("the Great"), who ruled in 1762–1796, presided over the Russian Age of Enlightenment. She extended Russian political control over the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and annexed most of its territories into Russia, making it the most populous country in Europe.[88] In the south, after the successful Russo-Turkish Wars against the Ottoman Empire, Catherine advanced Russia's boundary to the Black Sea, by dissolving the Crimean Khanate, and annexing Crimea.[89] As a result of victories over Qajar Iran through the Russo-Persian Wars, by the first half of the 19th century, Russia also conquered the Caucasus.[90] Catherine's successor, her son Paul, was unstable and focused predominantly on domestic issues.[91] Following his short reign, Catherine's strategy was continued with Alexander I's (1801–1825) wresting of Finland from the weakened Sweden in 1809,[92] and of Bessarabia from the Ottomans in 1812.[93] In North America, the Russians became the first Europeans to reach and colonise Alaska.[94] In 1803–1806, the first Russian circumnavigation was made.[95] In 1820, a Russian expedition discovered the continent of Antarctica.[96]

#### Great power and development of society, sciences, and arts

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Napoleon's retreat from Moscow by Albrecht Adam (1851)

During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia joined alliances with various European powers, and fought against France. The French invasion of Russia at the height of Napoleon's power in 1812 reached Moscow, but eventually failed as the obstinate resistance in combination with the bitterly cold Russian winter led to a disastrous defeat of invaders, in which the pan-European Grande Armée faced utter destruction. Led by Mikhail Kutuzov and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, the Imperial Russian Army ousted Napoleon and drove throughout Europe in the War of the Sixth Coalition, ultimately entering Paris.[97] Alexander I controlled Russia's delegation at the Congress of Vienna, which defined the map of post-Napoleonic Europe.[98]

The officers who pursued Napoleon into Western Europe brought ideas of liberalism back to Russia, and attempted to curtail the tsar's powers during the abortive Decembrist revolt of 1825.[99] At the end of the conservative reign of Nicholas I (1825–1855), a zenith period of Russia's power and influence in Europe, was disrupted by defeat in the Crimean War.[100]

#### Great liberal reforms and capitalism

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The Battle of Shipka Pass for the control of the vital Shipka Pass during the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War

Nicholas's successor Alexander II (1855–1881) enacted significant changes throughout the country, including the emancipation reform of 1861.[101] These reforms spurred industrialisation, and modernised the Imperial Russian Army, which liberated much of the Balkans from Ottoman rule in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War.[102] During most of the 19th and early 20th century, Russia and Britain colluded over Afghanistan and its neighbouring territories in Central and South Asia; the rivalry between the two major European empires came to be known as the Great Game.[103]

The late 19th century saw the rise of various socialist movements in Russia. Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by revolutionary terrorists.[104] The reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful.[105]

#### Constitutional monarchy and World War

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Under last Russian emperor, Nicholas II (1894–1917), the Revolution of 1905 was triggered by the humiliating failure of the Russo-Japanese War.[106] The uprising was put down, but the government was forced to concede major reforms (Russian Constitution of 1906), including granting freedoms of speech and assembly, the legalisation of political parties, and the creation of an elected legislative body, the State Duma.[107]

### Revolution and civil war

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Main articles: Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, and Dissolution of the Russian Empire

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and the Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

In 1914, Russia entered World War I in response to Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Russia's ally Serbia,[108] and fought across multiple fronts while isolated from its Triple Entente allies.[109] In 1916, the Brusilov Offensive of the Imperial Russian Army almost completely destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Army.[110] However, the already-existing public distrust of the regime was deepened by the rising costs of war, high casualties, and rumors of corruption and treason. All this formed the climate for the Russian Revolution of 1917, carried out in two major acts.[59] In early 1917, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate; he and his family were imprisoned and later executed during the Russian Civil War.[111] The monarchy was replaced by a shaky coalition of political parties that declared itself the Provisional Government,[112] and proclaimed the Russian Republic. On 19 January [O.S. 6 January], 1918, the Russian Constituent Assembly declared Russia a democratic federal republic (thus ratifying the Provisional Government's decision). The next day the Constituent Assembly was dissolved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.[59]

An alternative socialist establishment co-existed, the Petrograd Soviet, wielding power through the democratically elected councils of workers and peasants, called soviets. The rule of the new authorities only aggravated the crisis in the country instead of resolving it, and eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and gave full governing power to the soviets, leading to the creation of the world's first socialist state.[59] The Russian Civil War broke out between the anti-communist White movement and the Bolsheviks with its Red Army.[113] In the aftermath of signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that concluded hostilities with the Central Powers of World War I, Bolshevist Russia surrendered most of its western territories, which hosted 34% of its population, 54% of its industries, 32% of its agricultural land, and roughly 90% of its coal mines.[114]

Vladimir Lenin speaks in Moscow, 1920, with Leon Trotsky leaning against the podium

The Allied powers launched an unsuccessful military intervention in support of anti-communist forces.[115] In the meantime, both the Bolsheviks and White movement carried out campaigns of deportations and executions against each other, known respectively as the Red Terror and White Terror.[116] By the end of the violent civil war, Russia's economy and infrastructure were heavily damaged, and as many as 10 million perished during the war, mostly civilians.[117] Millions became White émigrés,[118] and the Russian famine of 1921–1922 claimed up to five million victims.[119]

### Soviet Union

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Main article: History of the Soviet Union

Location of the Russian SFSR (red) within the Soviet Union in 1936

#### Command economy and Soviet society

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On 30 December 1922, Lenin and his aides formed the Soviet Union, by joining the Russian SFSR into a single state with the Byelorussian, Transcaucasian, and Ukrainian republics.[120] Eventually internal border changes and annexations during World War II created a union of 15 republics, the largest in size and population being the Russian SFSR, which dominated the union politically, culturally, and economically.[121]

Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika was designated to take charge. Eventually Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, managed to suppress all opposition factions and consolidate power in his hands to become the country's dictator by the 1930s.[122] Leon Trotsky, the main proponent of world revolution, was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929,[123] and Stalin's idea of Socialism in One Country became the official line.[124] The continued internal struggle in the Bolshevik party culminated in the Great Purge.[125]

#### Stalinism and modernisation

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Congratulations sent by Joseph Stalin on the opening of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant

Under Stalin's leadership, the government launched a command economy, industrialisation of the largely rural country, and collectivisation of its agriculture. During this period of rapid economic and social change, millions of people were sent to penal labour camps, including many political convicts for their suspected or real opposition to Stalin's rule,[126] and millions were deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union.[127] The transitional disorganisation of the country's agriculture, combined with the harsh state policies and a drought,[128] led to the Soviet famine of 1932–1933, which killed 5.7[129] to 8.7 million, 3.3 million of them in the Russian SFSR.[130] The Soviet Union, ultimately, made the costly transformation from a largely agrarian economy to a major industrial powerhouse within a short span of time.[131]

#### World War II and United Nations

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Main article: Soviet Union in World War II

Two teenage girls assemble PPD-40 submachine guns during the Siege of Leningrad in 1942 The Battle of Stalingrad, the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, ended in 1943 with a decisive Soviet victory against the German army.

The Soviet Union entered World War II on 17 September 1939 with its invasion of Poland,[132] in accordance with a secret protocol within the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany.[133] The Soviet Union later invaded Finland,[134] and occupied and annexed the Baltic states,[135] as well as parts of Romania.[136]: 91–95 On 22 June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union,[137] opening the Eastern Front, the largest theater of World War II.[138]: 7

Eventually, some 5 million Red Army troops were captured by the Nazis;[139]: 272 the latter deliberately starved to death or otherwise killed 3.3 million Soviet POWs, and a vast number of civilians, as the "Hunger Plan" sought to fulfil Generalplan Ost.[140]: 175–186 Although the Wehrmacht had considerable early success, their attack was halted in the Battle of Moscow.[141] Subsequently, the Germans were dealt major defeats first at the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943,[142] and then in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943.[143] Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad, in which the city was fully blockaded on land between 1941 and 1944 by German and Finnish forces, and suffered starvation and more than a million deaths, but never surrendered.[144] Soviet forces steamrolled through Eastern and Central Europe in 1944–1945 and captured Berlin in May 1945.[145] In August 1945, the Red Army invaded Manchuria and ousted the Japanese from Northeast Asia, contributing to the Allied victory over Japan.[146]

The 1941–1945 period of World War II is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.[147] The Soviet Union, along with the United States, the United Kingdom and China were considered the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II, and later became the Four Policemen, which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council.[148]: 27 During the war, Soviet civilian and military death were about 26–27 million,[149] accounting for about half of all World War II casualties.[150]: 295 The Soviet economy and infrastructure suffered massive devastation, which caused the Soviet famine of 1946–1947.[151] However, at the expense of a large sacrifice, the Soviet Union emerged as a global superpower.[152]

#### Superpower and Cold War

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The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin

After World War II, according to the Potsdam Conference, the Red Army occupied parts of Eastern and Central Europe, including East Germany and the eastern regions of Austria.[153] Dependent communist governments were installed in the Eastern Bloc satellite states.[154] After becoming the world's second nuclear power,[155] the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact alliance,[156] and entered into a struggle for global dominance, known as the Cold War, with the rivalling United States and NATO.[157]

#### Khrushchev Thaw reforms and economic development

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After Stalin's death in 1953 and a short period of collective rule, the new leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and launched the policy of de-Stalinization, releasing many political prisoners from the Gulag labour camps.[158] The general easement of repressive policies became known later as the Khrushchev Thaw.[159] At the same time, Cold War tensions reached its peak when the two rivals clashed over the deployment of the United States Jupiter missiles in Turkey and Soviet missiles in Cuba.[160]

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, thus starting the Space Age.[161] Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth, aboard the Vostok 1 crewed spacecraft on 12 April 1961.[162]

#### Period of developed socialism or Era of Stagnation

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Following the ousting of Khrushchev in 1964, another period of collective rule ensued, until Leonid Brezhnev became the leader. The era of the 1970s and the early 1980s was later designated as the Era of Stagnation. The 1965 Kosygin reform aimed for partial decentralisation of the Soviet economy.[163] In 1979, after a communist-led revolution in Afghanistan, Soviet forces invaded the country, ultimately starting the Soviet–Afghan War.[164] In May 1988, the Soviets started to withdraw from Afghanistan, due to international opposition, persistent anti-Soviet guerrilla warfare, and a lack of support by Soviet citizens.[165]

#### Perestroika, democratisation and Russian sovereignty

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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan in Red Square during the Moscow Summit, 31 May 1988

From 1985 onwards, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to enact liberal reforms in the Soviet system, introduced the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and to democratise the government.[166] This, however, led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements across the country.[167] Prior to 1991, the Soviet economy was the world's second-largest, but during its final years, it went into a crisis.[168]

By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Baltic states chose to secede from the Soviet Union.[169] On 17 March, a referendum was held, in which the vast majority of participating citizens voted in favour of changing the Soviet Union into a renewed federation.[170] In June 1991, Boris Yeltsin became the first directly elected President in Russian history when he was elected President of the Russian SFSR.[171] In August 1991, a coup d'état attempt by members of Gorbachev's government, directed against Gorbachev and aimed at preserving the Soviet Union, instead led to the end of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[172] On 25 December 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, along with contemporary Russia, fourteen other post-Soviet states emerged.[173]

### Independent Russian Federation

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Main article: History of Russia (1991–present)

Further information: Presidency of Boris Yeltsin, Russia under Vladimir Putin, and Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev

#### Transition to a market economy and political crises

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Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office as president on his first inauguration, with Boris Yeltsin looking over, 2000.

The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union led Russia into a deep and prolonged depression. During and after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, wide-ranging reforms including privatisation and market and trade liberalisation were undertaken, including radical changes along the lines of "shock therapy".[174] The privatisation largely shifted control of enterprises from state agencies to individuals with inside connections in the government, which led to the rise of Russian oligarchs.[175] Many of the newly rich moved billions in cash and assets outside of the country in an enormous capital flight.[176] The depression of the economy led to the collapse of social services—the birth rate plummeted while the death rate skyrocketed,[177][178] and millions plunged into poverty,[179] while extreme corruption,[180] as well as criminal gangs and organised crime rose significantly.[181]

In late 1993, tensions between Yeltsin and the Russian parliament culminated in a constitutional crisis which ended violently through military force. During the crisis, Yeltsin was backed by Western governments, and over 100 people were killed.[182]

#### Modern liberal constitution, international cooperation and economic stabilisation

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In December, a referendum was held and approved, which introduced a new constitution, giving the president enormous powers.[183] The 1990s were plagued by armed conflicts in the North Caucasus, both local ethnic skirmishes and separatist Islamist insurrections.[184] From the time Chechen separatists declared independence in the early 1990s, an intermittent guerrilla war was fought between the rebel groups and Russian forces.[185] Terrorist attacks against civilians were carried out by Chechen separatists, claiming the lives of thousands of Russian civilians.[e][186]

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia assumed responsibility for settling the latter's external debts.[187] In 1992, most consumer price controls were eliminated, causing extreme inflation and significantly devaluing the rouble.[188] High budget deficits coupled with increasing capital flight and inability to pay back debts, caused the 1998 Russian financial crisis, which resulted in a further GDP decline.[189]

#### Movement towards a modernised economy, political centralisation and democratic backsliding

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Further information: Putinism

On 31 December 1999, President Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned,[190] handing the post to the recently appointed prime minister and his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin.[191] Putin then won the 2000 presidential election,[192] and defeated the Chechen insurgency in the Second Chechen War.[193]

Putin won a second presidential term in 2004.[194] High oil prices and a rise in foreign investment saw the Russian economy and living standards improve significantly.[195] Putin's rule increased stability, while transforming Russia into an authoritarian state.[196] In 2008, Putin took the post of prime minister, while Dmitry Medvedev was elected President for one term, to hold onto power despite legal term limits;[197] this period has been described as a "tandemocracy".[198]

Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine as of 30 September 2022 at the time their annexation was declared

Following a diplomatic crisis with neighbouring Georgia, the Russo-Georgian War took place during 1–12 August 2008, resulting in Russia recognising two separatist states in the territories that it occupies in Georgia.[199] It was the first European war of the 21st century.[200] The 2008 constitutional amendments saw the terms of the president extend to six years and the lower house (State Duma) to five years.[201] Putin then went on to win the 2012 presidential election, which fueled the "Snow Revolution" protests.[202]

#### Invasion of Ukraine

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Main article: Russian invasion of Ukraine

In early 2014, following a pro-Western revolution in neighbouring Ukraine, Russia annexed Crimea after a disputed referendum on the status of Crimea was staged under Russian occupation.[203][204] The annexation generated an insurgency in the Donbas region of Ukraine, supported by Russian military intervention as part of an undeclared war against Ukraine.[205] Russian mercenaries and military forces, with the support of local separatist militias, waged a war in eastern Ukraine against the new Ukrainian government after the Russian government fostered anti-government and pro-Russian protests in the region,[206] although most residents had opposed secession from Ukraine.[207] Amidst nationwide protests against corruption,[208] Putin was re-elected for his second consecutive term in the 2018 presidential election.[209]

In a major escalation of the conflict, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.[210] The invasion marked the largest conventional war in Europe since World War II,[211] and was met with international condemnation,[212] as well as expanded sanctions against Russia.[213]

Putin with Shoigu, Gerasimov, Belousov, Yevkurov and commanders of Russia's military districts on 15 May 2024

As a result, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe in March,[214] and was suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.[215] In September, following successful Ukrainian counteroffensives,[216] Putin announced a "partial mobilisation", Russia's first mobilisation since Operation Barbarossa.[217] In the end of September, Putin proclaimed the annexation of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions, the largest annexation in Europe since World War II.[218] Putin and Russian-installed leaders signed treaties of accession, internationally unrecognised and widely denounced as illegal.[218] As a result of the invasion, hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been killed or injured,[219][220] while Russia has been accused of numerous war crimes.[221][222][223] The war in Ukraine has further exacerbated Russia's demographic crisis.[224]

In June 2023, the Wagner Group, a private military contractor fighting for Russia in Ukraine, declared an open rebellion against the Russian Ministry of Defence, capturing Rostov-on-Don, before beginning a march on Moscow. However, after negotiations between Wagner and the Belarusian government, the rebellion was called off.[225][226] The leader of the rebellion, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was later killed in a plane crash.[227] Putin won his third consecutive term in the 2024 presidential election, by winning 88% of the vote, the highest percentage in a presidential election in post-Soviet Russia.[228]

## Geography

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Main article: Geography of Russia

Topographic map of Russia

Russia's vast landmass stretches over the easternmost part of Europe and the northernmost part of Asia.[229][230] It spans the northernmost edge of Eurasia and has the world's fourth-longest coastline, of over 37,653 km (23,396 mi).[f][232] Russia lies between latitudes 41° and 82° N, and longitudes 19° E and 169° W, extending some 9,000 km (5,600 mi) east to west, and 2,500 to 4,000 km (1,600 to 2,500 mi) north to south.[233] Russia, by landmass, is larger than three continents,[g] and has the same surface area as Pluto.[234]

Russia has nine major mountain ranges, and they are found along the southernmost regions, which share a significant portion of the Caucasus Mountains (containing Mount Elbrus, which at 5,642 m (18,510 ft) is the highest peak in Russia and Europe);[6] the Altai and Sayan Mountains in Siberia; and in the East Siberian Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East (containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at 4,750 m (15,584 ft) is the highest active volcano in Eurasia).[235][229] The Ural Mountains, running north to south through the country's west, are rich in mineral resources, and form the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.[236] The lowest point in Russia and Europe, is situated at the head of the Caspian Sea, where the Caspian Depression reaches some 29 metres (95.1 ft) below sea level.[237]

Frozen Lake Baikal near Olkhon Island, the third-largest lake island in the world

Russia, as one of the world's only three countries bordering three oceans,[230] has links with a great number of seas.[h][229] Its major islands and archipelagos include Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, the New Siberian Islands, Wrangel Island, the Kuril Islands (four of which are disputed with Japan), and Sakhalin.[238][239] The Diomede Islands, administered by Russia and the United States, are just 3.8 km (2.4 mi) apart;[240] and Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands is merely 20 km (12.4 mi) from Hokkaido, Japan.[2]

Russia, home of over 100,000 rivers,[230] has one of the world's largest surface water resources, with its lakes containing approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water.[229] Lake Baikal, the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake, containing over one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.[241] Ladoga and Onega in northwestern Russia are two of the largest lakes in Europe.[230] Russia is second only to Brazil by total renewable water resources.[242] The Volga in western Russia, widely regarded as Russia's national river, is the longest river in Europe and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent.[243] The Siberian rivers of Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Amur are among the world's longest rivers.[244]

### Climate

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Main article: Climate of Russia

The size of Russia and the remoteness of many of its areas from the sea result in the dominance of the humid continental climate throughout most of the country, except for the tundra and the extreme southwest. Mountain ranges in the south and east obstruct the flow of warm air masses from the Indian and Pacific oceans, while the European Plain spanning its west and north opens it to influence from the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.[229] Most of northwest Russia and Siberia have a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of northeast Siberia (mostly Sakha, where the Northern Pole of Cold is located with the record low temperature of −71.2 °C or −96.2 °F),[238] and more moderate winters elsewhere. Russia's vast coastline along the Arctic Ocean and the Russian Arctic islands have a polar climate.[229]

Köppen climate classification of Russia

The coastal part of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, most notably Sochi, and some coastal and interior strips of the North Caucasus possess a humid subtropical climate with mild and wet winters.[229] In many regions of East Siberia and the Russian Far East, winter is dry compared to summer, while other parts of the country experience more even precipitation across seasons. Winter precipitation in most parts of the country usually falls as snow. The westernmost parts of Kaliningrad Oblast and some parts in the south of Krasnodar Krai and the North Caucasus have an oceanic climate.[229] The region along the Lower Volga and Caspian Sea coast, as well as some southernmost slivers of Siberia, possess a semi-arid climate.[245]

Throughout much of the territory, there are only two distinct seasons, winter and summer, as spring and autumn are usually brief.[229] The coldest month is January (February on the coastline); the warmest is usually July. Great ranges of temperature are typical. In winter, temperatures get colder both from south to north and from west to east. Summers can be quite hot, even in Siberia.[246] Climate change in Russia is causing more frequent wildfires,[247] and thawing the country's large expanse of permafrost.[248]

### Biodiversity

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Main article: Wildlife of Russia

See also: List of ecoregions in Russia

Russia, owing to its gigantic size, has diverse ecosystems, including polar deserts, tundra, forest tundra, taiga, mixed and broadleaf forest, forest steppe, steppe, semi-desert, and subtropics.[249] About half of Russia's territory is forested,[6] and it has the world's largest area of forest,[250] which sequester some of the world's highest amounts of carbon dioxide.[250][251]

Yugyd Va National Park in the Komi Republic is the largest national park in Europe.[236]

Russian biodiversity includes 12,500 species of vascular plants, 2,200 species of bryophytes, about 3,000 species of lichens, 7,000–9,000 species of algae, and 20,000–25,000 species of fungi. Russian fauna is composed of 320 species of mammals, over 732 species of birds, 75 species of reptiles, about 30 species of amphibians, 343 species of freshwater fish (high endemism), approximately 1,500 species of saltwater fishes, 9 species of cyclostomata, and approximately 100–150,000 invertebrates (high endemism).[249][252] Approximately 1,100 rare and endangered plant and animal species are included in the Russian Red Data Book.[249]

Russia's entirely natural ecosystems are conserved in nearly 15,000 specially protected natural territories of various statuses, occupying more than 10% of the country's total area.[249] They include 45 biosphere reserves,[253] 64 national parks, and 101 nature reserves.[254] Although in decline, the country still has many ecosystems which are still considered intact forest, mainly in the northern taiga areas, and the subarctic tundra of Siberia.[255] Russia had a Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 9.02 in 2019, ranking 10th out of 172 countries, and the first ranked major nation globally.[256]

## Government and politics

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Main article: Politics of Russia

Vladimir Putin
President

Mikhail Mishustin
Prime Minister

A chart of the political system in Russia

Russia, by constitution, is a symmetric federal republic with a semi-presidential system, wherein the president is the head of state,[257] and the prime minister is the head of government.[6][258] It is structured as a multi-party representative democracy,[258] with the federal government composed of three branches:[259]

* Legislative: The bicameral Federal Assembly of Russia, made up of the 450-member State Duma and the 170-member Federation Council,[259] adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse and the power of impeachment of the president.[260]
* Executive: The president is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, and appoints the Government of Russia (Cabinet) and other officers, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies.[257] The president may issue decrees of unlimited scope, so long as they do not contradict the constitution or federal law.[261]
* Judiciary: The Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges are appointed by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president,[259] interpret laws and can overturn laws they deem unconstitutional.[262]

The president is elected by popular vote for a six-year term and may be elected no more than twice.[263][i] Ministries of the government are composed of the premier and his deputies, ministers, and selected other individuals; all are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister (whereas the appointment of the latter requires the consent of the State Duma). United Russia is the dominant political party in Russia, and has been described as "big tent" and the "party of power".[265][266]

Post-Soviet Russia was a flawed democracy during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.[267]: 223 However, following the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, it has experienced significant democratic backsliding.[267]: 223 [268][269] The political system evolved from electoral authoritarianism into a consolidated authoritarian regime.[267]: 323 [270] Some political scientists have characterized Putin as the head of a dictatorship,[8][9][271] or a personalist regime.[272][273][270] Putin's second tenure as president has led to further autocratization,[267]: 512 [274]: 80–81 which has been the most significant since the Soviet era,[275][276] with some authors suggesting a regeneration of totalitarian elements.[277][278] Putin's ruling policies are generally referred to as Putinism.[279]

### Political divisions

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Main article: Political divisions of Russia

Russia, by constitution, is a symmetric (with the possibility of an asymmetric configuration) federation. Unlike the Soviet asymmetric model of the RSFSR, where only republics were "subjects of the federation", the current constitution raised the status of other regions to the level of republics and made all regions equal with the title "subject of the federation". The regions of Russia have reserved areas of competence, but regions do not have sovereignty, do not have the status of a sovereign state, do not have the right to indicate any sovereignty in their constitutions and do not have the right to secede from the country. The laws of the regions cannot contradict federal laws.[280]

The federal subjects[j] have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly.[260] They do, however, differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy.[281] The federal districts of Russia were established by Putin in 2000 to facilitate central government control of the federal subjects.[282] Originally seven, currently there are eight federal districts, each headed by an envoy appointed by the president.[283]

Federal subjects  | Governance

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46 oblasts

| The most common type of federal subject with a governor and locally elected legislature. Commonly named after their administrative centres.[284]

22 republics

| Each is nominally autonomous—home to a specific ethnic minority, and has its own constitution, language, and legislature, but is represented by the federal government in international affairs.[285]

9 krais

| For all intents and purposes, krais are legally identical to oblasts. The title "krai" ("frontier" or "territory") is historic, related to geographic (frontier) position in a certain period of history. The current krais are not related to frontiers.[286]

4 autonomous okrugs

| Occasionally referred to as "autonomous district", "autonomous area", and "autonomous region", each with a substantial or predominant ethnic minority.[287]

3 federal cities

| Major cities that function as separate regions (Moscow and Saint Petersburg, as well as Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Ukraine).[288]

1 autonomous oblast

| The only autonomous oblast is the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.[289]

### Foreign relations

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Main article: Foreign relations of Russia

Putin with G20 counterparts in Osaka, 2019

Russia has the world's sixth-largest diplomatic network as of 2024[update]. It maintains diplomatic relations with 187 United Nations member states, two partially-recognised states,[290] and two United Nations observer states, along with 143 embassies.[291] Russia is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. It is generally described as a great power,[292][293][294][295] though it has been questioned whether it can retain this status.[296][297] Russia is also a former superpower as the leading constituent of the former Soviet Union.[152] and the legal successor to Soviet foreign policies.[298] It is a member of the G20, the OSCE, and the APEC—and the leading member of organisations such as the CIS,[299] the EAEU,[300] the CSTO,[301] and the SCO.[302] Russia was also a member of the G8 (now the G7) and part of the Council of Europe before its expulsion from the two groups in 2014 and 2022, respectively.[303][304]

Russia maintains close relations with neighbouring Belarus, which is a part of the Union State, a supranational confederation of the two states.[305] Serbia has been a historically close ally of Russia, as both countries share a strong mutual cultural, ethnic, and religious affinity.[306] From the 21st century, relations between Russia and China have significantly strengthened bilaterally and economically due to shared political interests.[307] India is the largest customer of Russian military equipment, and the two countries share a strong strategic and diplomatic relationship since the Soviet era.[308] Russia wields great political influence across the geopolitically important South Caucasus and Central Asia, and the two regions have been described as being part of Russia's "backyard"[309][310] or "near abroad".[298][311]

Russia
Countries on Russia's "Unfriendly countries list". The list includes countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Russia shares a complex strategic, energy, and defence relationship with Turkey.[312] It maintains cordial relations with Iran, as it is a strategic and economic ally.[313] Russia has also significantly developed its relations with North Korea following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with increased defence co-operation.[314] At the same time, its relations with neighbouring Ukraine and the Western world—specifically the United States and the collective countries of the European Union and NATO—have collapsed.[315][316]

In the 21st century, Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at securing regional dominance in Europe and increasing its international influence, as well as increasing domestic support for the government. It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria during its prolonged civil war in a bid to increase its influence in the Middle East.[317] Russia has also increasingly pushed to expand its influence across the Arctic,[318] the Asia–Pacific,[319] Africa[320] and Latin America.[321] Two-thirds of the world's population, specifically the developing countries of the Global South, are either neutral or leaning towards Russia politically.[322][323] Russia has also continued using subversive tactics to increase perceptions of its geopolitical power in its rival countries,[324][292] including cyberwarfare, disinformation campaigns,[325] sabotage attacks,[326] assassination attempts,[327] airspace violations,[328] electoral interferences,[329] and nuclear saber-rattling.[330]

### Military

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Main article: Russian Armed Forces

Sukhoi Su-57, a fifth-generation fighter of the Russian Air Force[331]

The Russian Armed Forces are divided into the Ground Forces, the Navy, and the Aerospace Forces—and there are also two independent arms of service: the Strategic Missile Troops and the Airborne Troops.[332][6] As of 2025[update], the military have 1.1 million active-duty personnel, which is the world's fifth-largest, and about 1.5 million reserve personnel.[333] It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 18–27 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces.[6]

Russia is among the five recognised nuclear-weapons states, with the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons; over half of the world's nuclear weapons are owned by Russia.[334] Russia possesses the second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines,[335] and is one of the only three countries operating strategic bombers.[336] As of 2023[update], Russia maintains the world's third-highest military expenditure, spending $109 billion, corresponding to about 5.9% of its GDP.[337] It is also the third-largest arms exporter,[337] and has a large and indigenous defence industry, which produces the majority of its military equipment.[338][339][340]

### Human rights

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Main article: Human rights in Russia

Violations of human rights in Russia have been increasingly reported by leading democracy and human rights groups. In particular, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say that Russia is not democratic and allows few political rights and civil liberties to its citizens.[341][342]

Since 2004, Freedom House has ranked Russia as "not free" in its Freedom in the World survey.[343] Since 2011, the Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked Russia as an "authoritarian regime" in its Democracy Index, ranking it 150th out of 167 countries in 2024.[344] In regards to media freedom, Russia was ranked 162nd out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index for 2024.[345] The Russian government has been widely criticised by political dissidents and human rights activists for unfair elections,[346] crackdowns on opposition political parties and protests,[347][348] persecution of non-governmental organisations and enforced suppression and killings of independent journalists,[349][350][351] and censorship of mass media and internet.[352]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, anti-war protests broke out across Russia. The protests have been met with widespread repression, leading to about 15,000 people being arrested.[353]

Muslims, especially Salafis, have faced persecution in Russia.[354][355] To quash the insurgency in the North Caucasus, Russian authorities have been accused of indiscriminate killings,[356] arrests, forced disappearances, and torture of civilians.[357][358] In Dagestan, some Salafis along with facing government harassment based on their appearance, have had their homes blown up in counterinsurgency operations.[359][360] Chechens and Ingush in Russian prisons reportedly take more abuse than other ethnic groups.[361] During the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has set up filtration camps where many Ukrainians are subjected to abuses and forcibly sent to Russia; the camps have been compared to those used in the Chechen Wars.[362][363] Political repression also increased following the start of the invasion, with laws adopted that establish punishments for "discrediting" the armed forces.[364]

Russia has introduced several restrictions on LGBTQ rights. In 2013, an anti-LGBTQ law banning "gay propaganda" was unanimously passed by the State Duma and the Federation Council, later being signed into law by Vladimir Putin.[365] In 2020, the Russian parliament legalized a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage,[366] and in 2021 the Ministry of Justice designated the LGBTQ rights group Russian LGBT Network as a "foreign agent".[367] In 2022, further amendments were made to the 2013 anti-LGBTQ law.[368] In 2023, the Russian parliament passed a bill banning gender reassignment surgery for transgender people and the Supreme Court of Russia banned the international LGBTQ movement as "extremist", outlawing it in the country.[369][370] In 2024, the Supreme Court issued the first convictions from the latter ruling.[371]

### Law, corruption and crime

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Main articles: Law of Russia, Law enforcement in Russia, Crime in Russia, and Corruption in Russia

Post-Soviet Russia under the regime of Vladimir Putin has been governed by a form of crony capitalism.[372][373] Its political system has been variously described as a kleptocracy,[374] an oligarchy,[375] and a plutocracy.[372] As of 2024[update], it is the lowest rated European country in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking 154th out of the 180 countries listed.[376]

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny leading protestors in Moscow in the nationwide anti-corruption protests of 2017–2018

Corruption has significantly increased following the collapse of the Soviet Union,[377] and is seen as a significant issue in society.[378][379] It affects various sectors, including the economy,[378] the government,[377] law enforcement,[380] healthcare,[381][382] education,[383] and the military.[384] Russia's shadow economy was estimated to be about 44% of the total GDP in 2018.[385] Penal military units have been deployed as storm troops during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War since 2022, such as the Storm-Z and Storm-V units.[386][387] According to estimates by the BBC, around 48,000 prisoners were recruited to fight for the Wagner Group.[388]

The primary and fundamental statement of laws in Russia is the constitution. Statutes, such as the Russian Civil Code and the Russian Criminal Code, are the predominant legal sources of Russian law.[389][390] Russia has the largest incarcerated population in Europe, and the fifth-largest incarcerated population in the world.[391] Its incarceration rate is among the highest in Europe,[392] although the number has fallen steadily, by 59% since 2000.[391] As of 2021[update], Russia's intentional homicide rate stood at 6.8 per 100,000 people.[393] In 2023, Russia had the world's second-largest illegal arms trade market, after the United States, was described as a key hub for human trafficking, and was ranked first in Europe and 19th globally in the Global Organized Crime Index.[394]

## Economy

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Main article: Economy of Russia

Further information: Economic history of the Russian Federation and Taxation in Russia

Russia has a high-income,[395] industrialized,[396] mixed market-oriented economy following a turbulent transition from the Soviet planned model during the 1990s.[397][398][399][400] It has the eleventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest economy by GDP (PPP). As of 2023[update], the service sector accounts for roughly 57% of total GDP, followed by the industrial sector (30%), while the agricultural sector is the smallest, at 3% of total GDP.[6] Russia's foreign exchange reserves are the fifth-largest in the world.[401] It has a labour force of about 73 million, which is the eighth-largest in the world.[402] As of 2023[update], Russia's largest trading partner by total import and export volume is China.[403]

The Moscow International Business Centre in Moscow. The city has one of the world's largest urban economies.[404]

Russia's human development is ranked as "very high" in the annual Human Development Index.[405] Roughly 70% of Russia's total GDP is driven by domestic consumption,[406][clarification needed]and the country has the world's twelfth-largest consumer market.[407] Russia has the fifth-highest number of billionaires in the world.[408] However, its income inequality remains comparatively high compared to other developed countries.[409] The variance of natural resources among its federal subjects has also led to regional economic disparities.[410][411] High levels of corruption,[412] a shrinking labor force,[413] a brain drain problem[414] and an aging and declining population also remain major barriers to future economic growth.[415][416]

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country has faced extensive sanctions and other negative financial actions from the Western world and its allies which have the aim of isolating the Russian economy from the Western financial system.[213] However, Russia has completed its transition into a war economy,[417] and has shown resilience to such measures broadly, maintaining economic stability and growth—driven primarily by high military expenditure,[418] rising household consumption and wages,[419] low unemployment,[420] and increased government spending.[421] Yet, inflation has remained comparatively high,[422] with experts predicting the sanctions will have a long-term negative effect on the Russian economy.[423]

### Transport and energy

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Main articles: Transport in Russia and Energy in Russia

Railway transport in Russia is mostly controlled by the state-run Russian Railways. The total length of common-used railway tracks is the world's third-longest, exceeding 87,000 km (54,100 mi).[424] As of 2019[update], Russia has the world's fifth-largest road network, with over 1.5 million km of roads.[425] However, its road density is among the world's lowest, in part to its vast land area.[426] Russia's inland waterways are the longest in the world, totaling 102,000 km (63,380 mi).[427] It has over 900 airports,[428] ranking seventh in the world, of which the busiest is Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. The largest ports include the Port of Novorossiysk, the Great Port of Saint Petersburg and the Port of Vladivostok.[429]

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, connecting Moscow to Vladivostok.[430]

Sheremetyevo International Airport is the busiest airport in Russia

Russia has one of the world's largest amounts of energy resources throughout its vast landmass, particularly natural gas and oil, which play a crucial role in its energy self-sufficiency and exports.[397] It has been widely described as an energy superpower.[431] Russia has the world's largest proven gas reserves,[432] the second-largest coal reserves,[433] the eighth-largest proven oil reserves,[434] and the largest oil shale reserves in Europe.[435] As of 2023[update], it is also the second-largest producer[436] and the third-largest exporter of natural gas,[437] as well as the second-largest producer and exporter of crude oil.[438] Russia's large oil and gas sector accounted for 30% of its federal budget revenues in 2024, down from 50% in the mid-2010s, suggesting economic diversification.[439]

Russia is the world's third-largest energy producer as of 2023[update].[440] Fossil fuels account for over 64% of energy production and 87% of energy consumption.[441] Natural gas is by far the largest source of energy, comprising over half of the energy production and 42% of electricity consumption.[441] Russia was the first country to develop civilian nuclear power, building the world's first nuclear power plant in 1954, and remains a pioneer in nuclear energy technology and is considered a world leader in fast neutron reactors.[442] Russia is the world's fourth-largest nuclear energy producer. Russian energy policy aims to expand the role of nuclear energy and develop new reactor technology.[442] Russia is the sole country that builds and operates nuclear-powered icebreakers,[443] which ease navigation along the Northern Sea Route,[443]: 192 and aid in utilizing its Arctic policy in its continental shelf.[444]

Russia joined the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, and ratified the agreement in 2019.[445] Its greenhouse gas emissions are the fourth-largest in the world as of 2023[update].[446] Coal accounts for over 10% of its energy consumption.[441] Russia is the fifth-largest hydroelectric producer as of 2022[update],[447] with hydroelectric power contributing almost a fifth to the total energy generation (17%).[441] Though it is the eighth-largest renewable energy producer as of 2023[update], the use and development of other renewable energy resources remain negligible,[441] as Russia is among the few countries without strong governmental or public support for a renewable energy transition.[448]

### Agriculture and fishery

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Main articles: Agriculture in Russia and Fishing industry in Russia

Wheat in Tomsk Oblast, Siberia

Agriculture, forestry and fishing contributes about 3.3% of the country's total GDP as of 2023[update].[449] It has the world's fourth-largest cultivated area, at 1,265,267 square kilometres (488,522 sq mi). However, due to the harshness of its environment, only about 13.1% of its land is agricultural,[6] with an additional 7.4% being arable.[450] The country's agricultural land is considered part of the "breadbasket" of Europe.[451] More than one-third of the sown area is devoted to fodder crops, and the remaining farmland is used industrial crops, vegetables, and fruits.[452] The main product of Russian farming has always been grain, which occupies well over half the cropland.[452] Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat and the largest producer of barley and buckwheat.[403][453] It is also among the largest exporters of maize and sunflower oil, as well as the leading producer of fertiliser.[453][403]

Various analysts of climate change adaptation foresee large opportunities for Russian agriculture during the rest of the 21st century as arability increases in Siberia, which would lead to both internal and external migration to the region.[454] Owing to its large coastline along three oceans and twelve marginal seas, Russia maintains the world's sixth-largest fishing industry, capturing nearly 5 million tons of fish in 2018.[455] It is home to the world's finest caviar, the beluga, and produces about one-third of all canned fish and some one-fourth of the world's total fresh and frozen fish.[452]

### Science and technology

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Main article: Science and technology in Russia

See also: Timeline of Russian innovation, List of Russian scientists, and List of Russian inventors

Russia spent about 1% of its GDP on research and development in 2019, with the world's tenth-highest budget.[456] It also ranked tenth worldwide in the number of scientific publications in 2020, with roughly 1.3 million papers.[457] Since 1904, Nobel Prize were awarded to 26 Soviets and Russians in physics, chemistry, medicine, economy, literature and peace.[458] Russia ranked 60th in the Global Innovation Index in 2024, down from 45th in 2021.[459][460]

Since the times of Nikolay Lobachevsky, who pioneered the non-Euclidean geometry, and Pafnuty Chebyshev, a prominent tutor, Russian mathematicians became among the world's most influential.[461] Dmitry Mendeleev invented the Periodic table, the main framework of modern chemistry.[462] Nine Soviet and Russian mathematicians have been awarded with the Fields Medal. Grigori Perelman was offered the first ever Clay Millennium Prize Problems Award for his final proof of the Poincaré conjecture in 2002, as well as the Fields Medal in 2006.[463]

Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist

Alexander Popov was among the inventors of radio,[464] while Nikolai Basov and Alexander Prokhorov were co-inventors of laser and maser.[465] Oleg Losev made crucial contributions in the field of semiconductor junctions, and discovered light-emitting diodes.[466] Vladimir Vernadsky is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.[467] Élie Metchnikoff is known for his groundbreaking research in immunology.[468] Ivan Pavlov is known chiefly for his work in classical conditioning.[469] Lev Landau made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.[470]

Nikolai Vavilov was best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants.[471] Trofim Lysenko was known mainly for Lysenkoism.[472] Many famous Russian scientists and inventors were émigrés. Igor Sikorsky was an aviation pioneer.[473] Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems.[474] Theodosius Dobzhansky was the central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis.[475] George Gamow was one of the foremost advocates of the Big Bang theory.[476]

#### Space exploration

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Mir, Russian space station that operated in LEO

Roscosmos is Russia's national space agency. The country's achievements in the field of space technology and space exploration can be traced back to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the father of theoretical astronautics, whose works had inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers, such as Sergey Korolyov, Valentin Glushko, and many others who contributed to the success of the Soviet space programme in the early stages of the Space Race and beyond.[477]: 6–7, 333

In 1957, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched. In 1961, the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yuri Gagarin. Many other Soviet and Russian space exploration records ensued. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6.[478] In 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the space capsule during Voskhod 2.[479]

In 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.[480] In 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body, the Moon.[481] In 1968, Zond 5 brought the first Earthlings (two tortoises and other life forms) to circumnavigate the Moon.[482] In 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, Venus.[483] In 1971, Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to land on Mars.[484]: 34–60 During the same period, Lunokhod 1 became the first space exploration rover,[485] while Salyut 1 became the world's first space station.[486]

As of 2023[update], Russia has 181 active satellites in space, which is the third-highest in the world.[487] Between the final flight of the Space Shuttle programme in 2011 and the 2020 SpaceX's first crewed mission, Soyuz rockets were the only launch vehicles capable of transporting astronauts to the ISS.[488] Luna 25 launched in August 2023, was the first of the Luna-Glob Moon exploration programme.[489]

### Tourism

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Main article: Tourism in Russia

Peterhof Palace in Saint Petersburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Most foreign tourists come from China.[490] Major tourist routes in Russia include a journey around the Golden Ring of Russia, a theme route of ancient Russian cities; cruises on large rivers such as the Volga; hikes on mountain ranges such as the Caucasus Mountains,[491] and journeys on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway.[492] Russia's most visited and popular landmarks include Red Square, the Peterhof Palace, the Kazan Kremlin, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Lake Baikal.[493]

Moscow, the nation's cosmopolitan capital and historic core, is a bustling modern megacity; it retains classical and Soviet-era architecture while boasting high art, world class ballet, and modern skyscrapers.[494] Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, is famous for its classical architecture, cathedrals, museums and theatres, white nights, crisscrossing rivers and numerous canals.[495] Russia is famed worldwide for its rich museums, such as the State Russian, the State Hermitage, and the Tretyakov Gallery, and for theatres such as the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky. The Moscow Kremlin and the Saint Basil's Cathedral are among the cultural landmarks of Russia.[496]

## Demographics

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Main articles: Demographics of Russia, Russians, List of cities and towns in Russia, and List of cities and towns in Russia by population

Population density of Russian municipalities according to the 2021 census

Ethnic groups in Russia with a population of over one million according to the 2010 census

Russia had an estimated population of 146.0 million in 2025 (143.6 million excluding Crimea and Sevastopol),[14] down from 147.2 million in the 2021 census.[497] It is the most populous country in Europe and ninth-most populous country in the world. With a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi),[498] Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated countries,[6] with the vast majority of its people concentrated within its western part.[499] The country is highly urbanised, with two-thirds of the population living in urban areas. As of 2024[update], the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.41 children born per woman,[500] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world.[501] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years.[6]

Russia's population peaked at over 148 million in 1993, having subsequently declined due to its death rate exceeding its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis.[502] In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration.[503] However, these population gains have been reversed since 2020, as excessive deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest peacetime decline in its history.[504] Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the demographic crisis has deepened,[505] owing to high military fatalities[506] and renewed emigration.[507] Recent studies have shown that between 15-45% of Russian emigrants have returned to Russia, though these numbers are not conclusive.[508]

Russia is a multinational state with many subnational entities associated with different minorities.[509] There are over 193 ethnic groups nationwide. In the 2010 census, roughly 81% of the population were ethnic Russians, and the remaining 19% of the population were ethnic minorities.[510] Over four-fifths of Russia's population was of European descent—of whom the vast majority were Slavs,[509][511] with a substantial minority of Finno-Ugric and Germanic peoples.[512][513] Russia has the third-largest immigrant population in the world, with over 12 million immigrants residing in the country as of 2019[update].[514] The vast majority of the Immigrants hail from post-Soviet states, with about half of them being from Ukraine and Kazakhstan as of 2020[update].[515]

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Largest cities or towns in Russia

2025 estimate[516]

Rank | Name | Federal subject | Pop. | Rank | Name | Federal subject | Pop.
1 | Moscow | Moscow | 13,274,285 | 11 | Samara | Samara Oblast | 1,154,223
2 | Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | 5,652,922 | 12 | Rostov-on-Don | Rostov Oblast | 1,143,123
3 | Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk Oblast | 1,637,266 | 13 | Omsk | Omsk Oblast | 1,101,367
4 | Yekaterinburg | Sverdlovsk Oblast | 1,548,187 | 14 | Voronezh | Voronezh Oblast | 1,041,722
5 | Kazan | Tatarstan | 1,329,825 | 15 | Perm | Perm Krai | 1,027,518
6 | Krasnoyarsk | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 1,211,756 | 16 | Volgograd | Volgograd Oblast | 1,012,219
7 | Nizhny Novgorod | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 1,198,245 | 17 | Saratov | Saratov Oblast | 886,165
8 | Chelyabinsk | Chelyabinsk Oblast | 1,176,770 | 18 | Tyumen | Tyumen Oblast | 872,077
9 | Ufa | Bashkortostan | 1,166,098 | 19 | Tolyatti | Samara Oblast | 662,683
10 | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 1,154,885 | 20 | Makhachkala | Dagestan | 625,322

### Language

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Main articles: Russian language and Languages of Russia

Minority languages across Russia

Altaic and Uralic languages spoken across Russia

The North Caucasus is ethno-linguistically diverse.[517]

Russian is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia.[3] It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language.[518] Russian is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station,[519] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.[518]

Russia is a multilingual nation: approximately 100–150 minority languages are spoken across the country.[520][521] According to the Russian Census of 2010, 137.5 million across the country spoke Russian, 3.1 million spoke Tatar, and 1.1 million spoke Ukrainian.[522] The constitution gives the country's individual republics the right to establish their own state languages in addition to Russian, as well as guarantee its citizens the right to preserve their native language and to create conditions for its study and development.[523] However, various experts have claimed Russia's linguistic diversity is rapidly declining due to many languages becoming endangered.[524][525]

### Religion

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Main article: Religion in Russia

Trinity Sunday in Russia; the Russian Orthodox Church has experienced a great revival since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a country that had a policy of state atheism.

Russia is constitutionally a secular state that officially enshrines freedom of religion.[526][527] The largest religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, chiefly represented by the Russian Orthodox Church,[526][528] which is legally recognised for its "special role" in the country's "history and the formation and development of its spirituality and culture."[527] Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism are recognised by Russian law as the "traditional" religions of the country constituting its "historical heritage".[529][530]

Islam is the second-largest religion in Russia and is traditional among the majority of peoples in the North Caucasus and some Turkic peoples in the Volga-Ural region.[526][528] Large populations of Buddhists are found in Kalmykia, Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai, and they are the vast majority of the population in Tuva.[528] A negligible population practices other religions—such as Rodnovery (Slavic Neopaganism),[531] Assianism (Scythian Neopaganism),[532] other ethnic Paganisms, and inter-Pagan movements such as Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism,[533] various movements of Hinduism,[534] Siberian shamanism[535] and Tengrism, various Neo-Theosophical movements such as Roerichism—among other faiths.[536][537] Some religious minorities have faced oppression and some have been banned in the country:[538] notably, in 2017 the Jehovah's Witnesses were outlawed in Russia, facing persecution ever since, after having been declared an "extremist" and "nontraditional" faith.[539]

In 2012, the research organisation Sreda, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, published the Arena Atlas, an adjunct to the 2010 census, enumerating in detail the religious populations and nationalities of Russia, based on a large-sample country-wide survey. The results showed that 47.3% of Russians declared themselves Christians—including 41% Russian Orthodox, 1.5% simply Orthodox or members of non-Russian Orthodox churches, 4.1% unaffiliated Christians, and less than 1% Old Believers, Catholics or Protestants—25% were believers without affiliation to any specific religion, 13% were atheists, 6.5% were Muslims,[k] 1.2% were followers of "traditional religions honouring gods and ancestors" (Rodnovery, other Paganisms, Siberian shamanism and Tengrism), 0.5% were Buddhists, 0.1% were religious Jews and 0.1% were Hindus.[528]

### Education

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Main article: Education in Russia

Moscow State University, the most prestigious educational institution in Russia[540]

Russia has an adult literacy rate of 100%,[541] and has compulsory education for a duration of 11 years, exclusively for children aged 7 to 17–18.[542] It grants free education to its citizens by constitution.[543] The Ministry of Education of Russia is responsible for primary and secondary education, as well as vocational education, while the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia is responsible for science and higher education.[542] Regional authorities regulate education within their jurisdictions within the prevailing framework of federal laws. Russia is among the world's most educated countries, and has the sixth-highest proportion of tertiary-level graduates in terms of percentage of population, at 62%.[544][obsolete source]

Russia's pre-school education system is highly developed and optional,[545] some four-fifths of children aged 3 to 6 attend day nurseries or kindergartens. Primary school is compulsory for eleven years, starting from age 6 to 7, and leads to a basic general education certificate.[542] An additional two or three years of schooling are required for the secondary-level certificate, and some seven-eighths of Russians continue their education past this level.[546]

Admission to an institute of higher education is selective and highly competitive:[543][547][obsolete source]first-degree courses usually take five years.[546] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University.[548] There are ten highly prestigious federal universities across the country.[549][need quotation to verify]

### Health

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Main article: Healthcare in Russia

Russia constitutionally guarantees free, universal health care for all Russian citizens through a compulsory state health insurance programme.[550] The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation oversees the Russian public healthcare system, and the sector employs more than two million people. Federal regions also have their own departments of health that oversee local administration. A separate private health insurance plan is needed to access private healthcare in Russia.[551]

Metallurg, a Soviet-era sanatorium in Sochi[552]

Russia spent 7.39% of its GDP on healthcare in 2021.[553] Its healthcare expenditure is notably lower than other developed nations.[554] Russia has one of the world's most female-biased sex ratios, with 0.859 males to every female,[6] due to its high male mortality rate.[555] As of 2022[update], the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth is 73 years (68 years for males and 78 years for females),[556][557][558] an increase of roughly 4.86 years from 2000.[559] The country has a very low infant mortality rate (4 per 1,000 live births).[560]

The principal causes of death in Russia are cardiovascular diseases.[561] The country's historically high alcohol consumption rate is the biggest health issue,[562] as it remains one of the world's highest, despite a stark decrease in the last decade.[563] Other prevalent health issues are obesity, with most adults being overweight or obese,[564] and smoking, which is among the highest in the world.[565] Russia's high suicide rate also remains a significant social issue.[566]

## Culture

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Main article: Russian culture

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at night

Russian culture reflects a long, gradual, and complex amalgamation of various elements that coincided with centuries of development, expansion, and interaction with different peoples, artistic movements, and cultures.[567] Russia has heavily influenced classical music,[568][569] ballet,[570][571] theatre,[572] mathematics,[461] sport,[573] painting,[574][575] and cinema.[576] Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European literature[577][578] and thought.[579] Russia has also made pioneering contributions to science, technology, and space exploration.[580][581]

Russia is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 21 of which are cultural, while 31 lie on the tentative list.[582] The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry.[59] The Russian Bear and Mother Russia are often used as national personifications of the country.[583][584] Matryoshka dolls are considered a cultural icon of Russia.[585]

### Holidays

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Main article: Public holidays in Russia

Russia has eight official holidays spanning public, patriotic, and religious commemorations.[586] The year starts with New Year's Day on 1 January, soon followed by Russian Orthodox Christmas on 7 January; the two are the country's most popular holidays.[587] Defender of the Fatherland Day, dedicated to men, is celebrated on 23 February.[588] International Women's Day on 8 March, gained momentum in Russia during the Soviet era. The annual celebration of women has become so popular, especially among Russian men, that the flower vendors of Moscow often see profits "fifteen times" more compared to other holidays.[589] Spring and Labour Day, originally a Soviet era holiday dedicated to workers, is celebrated on 1 May.[590]

The Scarlet Sails being celebrated along the Neva in Saint Petersburg

Victory Day, which honours Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the End of World War II in Europe, is celebrated on 9 May as an annual large parade in Moscow's Red Square[591] and marks the famous Immortal Regiment civil event.[592] Other patriotic holidays include Russia Day on 12 June, celebrated to commemorate Russia's declaration of sovereignty from the collapsing Soviet Union,[593] and Unity Day on 4 November, commemorating the 1612 uprising that marked the end of the Polish occupation of Moscow.[594]

There are many popular non-public holidays. Old New Year is celebrated on 14 January.[595] Maslenitsa is an ancient and popular East Slavic folk holiday.[596] Cosmonautics Day on 12 April, in tribute to the first human trip into space.[597] Two major Christian holidays are Easter and Trinity Sunday.[598]

### Art and architecture

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Main articles: Russian artists, Architecture of Russia, and List of Russian architects

Early Russian painting is represented in icons and vibrant frescos. In the early 15th century, master icon painter Andrei Rublev created some of Russia's most treasured religious art.[574] The Russian Academy of Arts, which was established in 1757 to train Russian artists, brought Western techniques of secular painting to Russia.[59] In the 18th century, academicians Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky became influential.[599] The early 19th century saw many prominent paintings by Karl Briullov and Alexander Ivanov, both of whom were known for Romantic historical canvases.[600][601] Ivan Aivazovsky, another Romantic painter, is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.[602]

Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1833)

The Winter Palace served as the official residence of the Emperor of Russia

In the 1860s, a group of critical realists (Peredvizhniki), led by Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin and Vasiliy Perov broke with the academy, and portrayed the many-sided aspects of social life in paintings.[603][604] The turn of the 20th century saw the rise of symbolism, represented by Mikhail Vrubel and Nicholas Roerich.[605][606] The Russian avant-garde flourished from approximately 1890 to 1930; globally influential artists from this era were El Lissitzky,[607] Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Wassily Kandinsky, and Marc Chagall.[608]

The history of Russian architecture begins with early woodcraft buildings of ancient Slavs and the church architecture of Kievan Rus'.[574][609] The Christianization of Kievan Rus' brought centuries Byzantine architecture.[574][610] Following Mongol occupation, Kievan Rus' cut its ties with the Byzantine Empire, and Russian architecture saw native innovations, such as the invention of the iconostasis.[574] Aristotle Fioravanti and other Italian architects brought Renaissance trends to the Grand Principality of Moscow, which influenced the reconstruction of the Moscow Kremlin.[574][611] The 16th century saw the development of the unique tent-like churches and the onion dome design, which is a distinctive feature of Russian architecture.[612] In the 17th century, the "fiery style" of ornamentation flourished in Moscow and Yaroslavl, gradually paving the way for the Naryshkin baroque of the 1680s.[613]

After the reforms of Peter the Great, Russia's architecture became influenced by Western European styles.[574] The 18th-century taste for Rococo architecture led to the works of Bartolomeo Rastrelli and his followers. The most influential Russian architects of the eighteenth century, Vasily Bazhenov, Matvey Kazakov, and Ivan Starov, created lasting monuments in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and established a base for the more Russian forms that followed.[574] During the reign of Catherine the Great, Saint Petersburg was transformed into an outdoor museum of Neoclassical architecture.[614] Under Alexander I, Empire style became the de facto architectural style.[615] The second half of the 19th century was dominated by the Neo-Byzantine and Russian Revival style.[574][616] In the early 20th century, Russian neoclassical revival became a trend.[617] Prevalent styles of the late 20th century were Art Nouveau,[618] Constructivism,[619] and Socialist Classicism.[620]

### Music

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Main article: Music of Russia

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), in a 1893 painting by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov

Until the 18th century, music in Russia consisted mainly of church music and folk songs and dances.[568] In the 19th century, it was defined by the tension between classical composer Mikhail Glinka along with other members of The Mighty Handful, who were later succeeded by the Belyayev circle,[621] and the Russian Musical Society led by composers Anton and Nikolay Rubinstein.[622] The later tradition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, was continued into the 20th century by Sergei Rachmaninoff. World-renowned composers of the 20th century include Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Glazunov,[568] Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, and later Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina,[623] Georgy Sviridov,[624] and Alfred Schnittke.[623]

During the Soviet era, popular music also produced a number of renowned figures, such as the two balladeers—Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava,[623] and performers such as Alla Pugacheva.[625] Jazz, even with sanctions from Soviet authorities, flourished and evolved into one of the country's most popular musical forms.[623] By the 1980s, rock music became popular across Russia, and produced bands such as Aria, Aquarium,[626] DDT,[627] and Kino;[628] the latter's leader Viktor Tsoi, was in particular, a gigantic figure.[629] Pop music has continued to flourish in Russia since the 1960s, with globally famous acts such as t.A.T.u.[630]

### Literature and philosophy

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Main articles: Russian literature and Russian philosophy

Russian literature is among the world's most influential and developed.[577][578] It can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were composed.[631] By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, with works from Mikhail Lomonosov, Denis Fonvizin, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolay Karamzin.[577] From the early 1830s, during the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama.[632] Romantic literature permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore.[633] Following Pushkin's footsteps, a new generation of poets were born, including Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev and Afanasy Fet.[577]

The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol.[577][634] Then, during the Age of Realism,[577] came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels.[635] Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy soon became internationally renowned.[577] Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote prose satire,[577][636] while Nikolai Leskov is best remembered for his shorter fiction.[637] In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist.[577][638] Other important 19th-century developments included the fabulist Ivan Krylov,[639] non-fiction writers such as the critic Vissarion Belinsky,[577][640] and playwrights such as Aleksandr Griboyedov and Aleksandr Ostrovsky.[641][642] The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.[577] This era had poets such as Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Konstantin Balmont.[643] It also produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.[577]

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, with works such as War and Peace.[644]

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), one of the great novelists of all time, whose masterpieces include Crime and Punishment[645]

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Russian literature split into Soviet and white émigré parts. In the 1930s, Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia.[577] Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style.[646] Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the leading writers of the Soviet era.[647] Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature.[577] Influential émigré writers include Vladimir Nabokov[648] and Isaac Asimov, who was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers.[649] Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, such as Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the Gulag camps.[650]

Russian literature faced rapid and difficult changes during the turbulent post-Soviet 1990s, with writers and publishers struggling to adjust to new economic and political developments.[651] Domestic literature subsequently declined in influence among most Russians,[577] who now had sudden and rapid access to a wide volume of previously suppressed Western literary movements.[652] Nevertheless, this environment fostered experimental and postmodern literature and satire.[653] At the beginning of the 21st century, the most discussed figures, postmodernists Victor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin, remained the leading Russian writers.[654]

Russian philosophy has been influential. Religious and spiritual philosophy is represented by Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Pavel Florensky, Semyon Frank, Nikolay Lossky, Vasily Rozanov, and others.[655] Mystic Helena Blavatsky gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy and the co-founder of the Theosophical Society.[656] Alexander Herzen is known as one of the fathers of agrarian populism.[657] Mikhail Bakunin is referred to as the father of anarchism.[658] Peter Kropotkin was the most important theorist of anarcho-communism.[659] Mikhail Bakhtin's writings have significantly inspired scholars in various fields.[660] Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of communism known as Leninism.[661] Leon Trotsky, Lenin's contemporary and co-revolutionary, founded his own strain of Marxism known as Trotskyism.[662] Alexander Zinoviev was a prominent philosopher and writer in the second half of the 20th century.[663]

### Cuisine

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See also: Russian cuisine

Kvass is an ancient and traditional Russian beverage.

Russian cuisine has been formed by the country's diverse climate, cultural and religious traditions, and vast geography; it shares similarities with neighbouring countries. Crops of rye, wheat, barley, and millet provide the ingredients for various breads, pancakes and cereals, as well as for many drinks. Bread, of many varieties,[664] is very popular across Russia.[665] Flavourful soups and stews include shchi, borsch, ukha, solyanka, and okroshka. Smetana (a heavy sour cream) and mayonnaise are often added to soups and salads.[666][667] Pirozhki,[668] blini,[669] and syrniki are native types of pancakes.[670] Beef Stroganoff,[671]: 266 Chicken Kiev,[671]: 320 pelmeni,[672] and shashlyk are popular meat dishes.[673] Other meat dishes include stuffed cabbage rolls (golubtsy) usually filled with meat.[674] Salads include Olivier salad,[675] vinegret,[676] and dressed herring.[677]

Russia's national non-alcoholic drink is kvass,[678] and the national alcoholic drink is vodka; its production in Russia (and elsewhere) dates back to the 14th century.[679] The country has the world's highest vodka consumption,[680] while beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage.[681] Wine has become increasingly popular in Russia in the 21st century.[682] Tea has been popular in Russia for centuries.[683]

### Mass media and cinema

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Main articles: Media of Russia and Cinema of Russia

Ostankino Tower in Moscow, the tallest freestanding structure in Europe[684]

There are 400 news agencies in Russia, among which the largest internationally operating are TASS, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, and Interfax.[685] Television is the most popular medium in Russia.[686] Among the 3,000 licensed radio stations nationwide, notable ones include Radio Rossii, Vesti FM, Echo of Moscow, Radio Mayak, and Russkoye Radio. Of the 16,000 registered newspapers, Argumenty i Fakty, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Izvestia, and Moskovskij Komsomolets are popular. State-run Channel One and Russia-1 are the leading news channels, while RT is the flagship of Russia's international media operations.[686] Russia has the largest video gaming market in Europe, with over 65 million players nationwide.[687]

Russian and later Soviet cinema was a hotbed of invention, resulting in world-renowned films such as Battleship Potemkin, which was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.[688][689] Soviet-era filmmakers, most notably Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky, would go on to become among of the world's most innovative and influential directors.[690][691] Eisenstein was a student of Lev Kuleshov, who developed the groundbreaking Soviet montage theory of film editing at the world's first film school, the All-Union Institute of Cinematography.[692] Dziga Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory had a large effect on the development of documentary filmmaking and cinema realism.[693] Many Soviet socialist realism films were artistically successful, including Chapaev, The Cranes Are Flying, and Ballad of a Soldier.[576]

The 1960s and 1970s saw a greater variety of artistic styles in Soviet cinema.[576] The comedies of Eldar Ryazanov and Leonid Gaidai of that time were immensely popular, with many of the catchphrases still in use today.[694][695] In 1961–68 Sergey Bondarchuk directed an Oscar-winning film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace, which was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union.[576] In 1969, Vladimir Motyl's White Sun of the Desert was released, a very popular film in a genre of ostern; the film is traditionally watched by cosmonauts before any trip into space.[696] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian cinema industry suffered large losses; however, since the late 2000s, it has seen growth once again, and continues to expand.[697]

### Sports

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Main article: Sport in Russia

Football is the most popular sport in Russia.[698] The Soviet Union national football team became the first European champions by winning Euro 1960,[699] and reached the finals of Euro 1988.[700] Russian clubs CSKA Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg won the UEFA Cup in 2005 and 2008.[701][702] The Russian national football team reached the semi-finals of Euro 2008.[703] Russia was the host nation for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup,[704] and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[705] However, Russian teams are currently suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions.[706]

Maria Sharapova, former world No. 1 tennis player, was the world's highest-paid female athlete for 11 consecutive years.[707]

Ice hockey is very popular in Russia, and the Soviet national ice hockey team dominated the sport internationally throughout its existence.[573] Bandy is Russia's national sport, and it has historically been the highest-achieving country in the sport.[708] The Russian national basketball team won the EuroBasket 2007,[709] and the Russian basketball club PBC CSKA Moscow is among the most successful European basketball teams.[710] The annual Formula One Russian Grand Prix was held at the Sochi Autodrom in the Sochi Olympic Park, until its termination following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[711][712]

Historically, Russian athletes have been one of the most successful contenders in the Olympic Games.[573] Russia is the leading nation in rhythmic gymnastics, and Russian synchronised swimming is considered to be the world's best.[713] Figure skating is another popular sport in Russia, especially pair skating and ice dancing.[714] Russia has produced numerous prominent tennis players.[715] Chess is also a widely popular pastime in the nation, with many of the world's top chess players being Russian for decades.[716] The 1980 Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow,[717] and the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Paralympics were hosted in Sochi.[718][719] However, Russia has also had 43 Olympic medals stripped from its athletes due to doping violations, which is the most of any country, and nearly a third of the global total.[720]

## See also

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* Russia portal

* Outline of Russia

## Notes

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1. ^ Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, remains internationally recognised as a part of Ukraine.[1] Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, which were annexed—though are only partially occupied—in 2022, also remain internationally recognised as a part of Ukraine. The southernmost Kuril Islands have been the subject of a territorial dispute with Japan since their occupation by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.[2]
2. ^ Russian: Россия, romanized: Rossiya, [rɐˈsʲijə]
3. ^ Russian: Российская Федерация, romanized: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]
4. ^ The fourteen countries bordering Russia are[18] Norway and Finland to the northwest; Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine to the west, as well as Lithuania and Poland (with Kaliningrad Oblast); Georgia and Azerbaijan to the southwest; Kazakhstan and Mongolia to the south; China and North Korea to the southeast. Russia also shares maritime boundaries with Japan and the United States. Russia also shares borders with the two partially recognised breakaway states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia that it occupies in Georgia.
5. ^ Most notably the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, the Russian apartment bombings, the Moscow theater hostage crisis, and the Beslan school siege
6. ^ Russia has an additional 850 km (530 mi) of coastline along the Caspian Sea, which is the world's largest inland body of water, and has been variously classified as a sea or a lake.[231]
7. ^ Russia, by land area, is larger than the continents of Australia, Antarctica, and Europe, although it covers a large part of the latter itself. Its land area could be roughly compared to that of South America.
8. ^ Russia borders, clockwise, to its southwest: the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, to its west: the Baltic Sea, to its north: the Barents Sea (White Sea, Pechora Sea), the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, and the East Siberian Sea, to its northeast: the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and to its southeast: the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
9. ^ In 2020, constitutional amendments were signed into law that limit the president to two terms overall rather than two consecutive terms, with this limit reset for current and previous presidents.[264]
10. ^ Including bodies on territory disputed between Russia and Ukraine whose annexation has not been internationally recognised: the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol since the annexation of Crimea in 2014,[1] and territories set up following the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022.
11. ^ The Sreda Arena Atlas 2012 did not count the populations of two federal subjects of Russia where the majority of the population is Muslim, namely Chechnya and Ingushetia, which together had a population of nearly 2 million, thus the proportion of Muslims was possibly slightly underestimated.[528]

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## Further reading

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Main articles: Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus', Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613), and Bibliography of Russian history (1613–1917)

* Bartlett, Roger P. (2005). A history of Russia online
* Bartlett, Rosamund; Benn, Anna, eds. (1997). Literary Russia. A Guide. London: Picador. ISBN 0-333-71197-1.
* Borrero, Mauricio (2004). Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. European Nations. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-4454-6.
* Breslauer, George W.; Colton, Timothy J. (2017). Russia Beyond Putin (Daedalus) online
* Brown, Archie, ed. (1982). The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union online
* Dutkiewicz, P.; Richard, S.; Vladimir, K. (2016). The Social History of Post-Communist Russia. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-32846-9. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
* Florinsky, Michael T. ed. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961).
* Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (2021) excerpt
* Greene, by Samuel A. and Graeme B. Robertson. Putin v. the People: the Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale UP, 2019) excerpt
* Hosking, Geoffrey A. Russia and the Russians: a history (2011) online
* Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Bealby, John Thomas; Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Russia" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 869–912.
* Pynnöniemi, Katri (2021). Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia: A Quest for Internal Cohesion. Helsinki University Press. ISBN 978-952-369-035-6.
* Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel (1995). The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering. New York University Press. ISBN 9780814769409.
* Reiman, Michael (2016). About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-67136-8. JSTOR j.ctv2t4dn7.
* Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (9th ed. 2018) 9th edition 1993 online
* Rosefielde, Steven. Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy (2020) excerpt
* Service, Robert. A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century (Harvard UP, 3rd ed., 2009) excerpt
* Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2014) excerpt; 800 pp covering art, literature, music, film, media, crime, politics, business, and economics.
* Walker, Shauin. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts Of the Past (2018, Oxford UP) excerpt

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* 1994 FTA Agreement
* 2011 FTA Treaty
* 2023 Free Trade in Services

Organization|

* Interstate Aviation Committee
* GOST (Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification)

Outside the CIS framework|

* Georgia
* Eurasian Economic Community
* Eurasian Patent Convention
* Eurasian Patent Organization
* EU Technical Aid
* Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Union
* Eurasian Economic Union
* Union State
* Russian Empire
* Soviet Union
* Dissolution of the Soviet Union
* New Union Treaty
* Collective Security Treaty Organization
* Collective Rapid Reaction Force

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Eurasian Economic Union

Member states|

* Armenia
* Belarus
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Russia

Observer members|

* Cuba
* Moldova
* Uzbekistan

Prospective members|

* Mongolia
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Uzbekistan

Free Trade Zone agreements|

* China
* Egypt
* Iran
* Moldova
* Serbia
* Singapore
* Tajikistan
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam

* v
* t
* e

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

Summits|

* Beijing 2012
* Dushanbe 2014
* Astana 2017
* Qingdao 2018
* Samarkand 2022
* Astana 2024
* Islamabad 2024
* Tianjin 2025

Member states|

* Belarus
* China
* India
* Iran
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Pakistan
* Russia
* Tajikistan
* Uzbekistan

Observer states|

* Mongolia

Dialogue partners|

* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Cambodia
* Egypt
* Kuwait
* Maldives
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Sri Lanka
* Turkey
* United Arab Emirates

Guests|

* ASEAN
* Commonwealth of Independent States
* Turkmenistan
* United Nations

Applicants|

* Algeria
* Bangladesh
* Iraq
* Israel
* Laos
* Syria

See also|

* Member states
* Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
* Three Evils
* SCO Interbank Consortium
* Eurasian Land Bridge
* Working languages
* Chinese
* Russian

* v
* t
* e

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

* Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Hissein Brahim Taha

Member states|

| Members|

* Afghanistan
* Albania
* Algeria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Benin
* Burkina Faso
* Brunei
* Cameroon
* Chad
* Comoros
* Djibouti
* Egypt
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ivory Coast
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Pakistan-OIC relations
* Palestine
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* Sudan
* Suriname
* Tajikistan
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* Uganda
* Uzbekistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Yemen

|

Suspended|

* Syria
* Syria and OIC

Observers|

Countries
and territories

* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Central African Republic
* Northern Cyprus1
* Russia
* Thailand

|

Muslim
communities

* Moro National Liberation Front

International
organizations

* Economic Cooperation Organization
* African Union
* Arab League
* Non-Aligned Movement
* United Nations

History|

| Declarations|

* Abuja Declaration (1989)
* Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990)
* OIC Resolution 10/11 (2008)
* OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37 (2010)

|

Sessions|

| Extraordinary|

* First
* Second
* Third
* Fourth
* Fifth
* Sixth
* Seventh
* Eighth
* Ninth
* Arab–Islamic (2023)

|

Demographics|

* Economy
* GDP
* GDP per capita
* Exports
* Imports
* Population
* Largest cities
* Education

* 1 As the "Turkish Cypriot State".

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* 2
* 3
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Japan
* Australia
* Czech Republic
* 2
* Poland
* Israel
* Catalonia

Geographic|

* MusicBrainz area

Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* KulturNav

People|

* UK Parliament

Other|

* IdRef
* Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
* NARA
* İslâm Ansiklopedisi
* Yale LUX

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