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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.
Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries.
1 day ago · Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other former republics of the Soviet Union.
1 day ago · Stay on top of Russia latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.
1 day ago · Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union ), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
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...
3 days ago · Russia sent Kilo attack submarine toward Irish Sea twice, Bloomberg News reports. Russian attack submarines have conducted missions around the Irish Sea twice since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine...
May 17, 2024 · Russia's invasion began with dozens of missile strikes on cities all over Ukraine before dawn on 24 February 2022. Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in...
1 day ago · The political history of Rus is one of clashing separatist and centralizing trends inherent in the contradiction between local settlement and colonization on the one hand and the hegemony of the clan elder, ruling from Kiev, on the other.
Deadly Attack Revives Fears of the Return of Mass Terror in Russia. A deadly assault in the southern region of Dagestan has put a spotlight on the failing of Russian security services amid the...
