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Additional information about Russia
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- Official name: the Russian Federation
- Political System: Federal Republic
- The head of the state: President
- Legislature: Two-chamber Federal Assembly
- Geographical location: in the Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
- Border Countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, China, The Chinese National Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, USA, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia and Japan.
- Area: 17,075 million sq. km.
- Population: approximate 141,38 million people (2007), Russians – 81,5%, Tatars – 3,8%, Ukrainians – 3%, Chuvashs, Bashkirs, Belarussians, Moldavians and others – 11.7% (in total more thah 180 nations)
- Capital: Moscow – 10,454 million people
- Major Cities: Saint-Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Omsk, Kazan, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Rostov-on-Don, Perm
- Official language: Russian
- Religions: Orthodox, Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Buddists
- Climate: from sea on the North-West to arctic and subarctic on the far North and the Nothern islands sharply continental in Siberia, monsoon on the Far East and subtropical on the South
- Average temperature: from –23oC to +4oC in January; from +13oC to +24oC in July
- Monetary unit: rouble (RUR)
- Telephone country code: 7
- International country code: RUS
- Internet domain: .ru
- National holydays: May. 9th - the Victory Day (1945); June, 12th – the National Sovereignty Declaration Day (1990), December 12th – the Constitution Day (1993)
- Credit card: VISA, MasterCard, Diners, American Express, Visa Electron
- Voltage: 220 V ~ 50 Hz, Europian socket
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