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Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.Russia is a highly urbanised country including 16 population centres with over a million inhabitants.Its capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest ...
2 days ago · Russia’s climate is extreme, with forbidding winters that have several times famously saved the country from foreign invaders. Although the climate adds a layer of difficulty to daily life, the land is a generous source of crops and materials, including vast reserves of oil, gas, and precious metals. That richness of resources has not translated into an easy life for most of the country’s people, however; indeed, much of Russia’s history has been a grim tale of the very wealthy and ...
2 days ago · Russia set for aggressive 200 bps rate hike to cool down economy: Reuters poll. The Russian central bank is set to hike its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18% at the July 26 board ...
Mar 25, 2024 · Russia - the largest country on earth - emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to seek to reassert itself as a world power. Income from vast natural resources, above ...
May 17, 2024 · Russia has intensified its attacks on the region following Friday's surprise incursions across the border, seizing several villages and settlements in one of the most significant ground attacks ...
Jul 16, 2024 · Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started the deadliest war on European soil in more than 70 years. Follow this page for reports from the ground, the political wrangling on both sides of the front ...
Mar 1, 2022 · Ukraine’s lurch away from Russian influence felt like the final death knell for Russian power in Eastern Europe. To Europe and the United States, Ukraine matters in part because they see it as a ...
Dec 14, 2023 · Russia's leader holds his first major news conference since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
Jun 26, 2024 · DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Relentless Russian attacks on Ukrainian positions defending the strategically important eastern town of Chasiv Yar are disrupting troop rotations and the delivery of some supplies, soldiers in the area say.. Russian troops are seeking to press their advantage in troop numbers and weaponry before Ukrainian forces are bulked up by promised new Western military aid that is already trickling to the front line, analysts say.. The Kremlin’s military has been ...
Feb 24, 2023 · BBC News. 0:58. Watch: Ukraine's recapture of Kherson City was one of Russia's biggest setbacks. When Vladimir Putin sent up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he wrongly ...
