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Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries.
As of 2024, there are 32 World Heritage Sites in Russia, with a further 31 sites on the tentative list. The most recent site listed was the Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake, in 2024. [3] There are twenty-one cultural sites and eleven natural. Four sites are transnational.
Russia's research and development budget is the world's ninth-highest, with an expenditure of approximately 422 billion rubles on domestic research and development. [131] In 2019, Russia was ranked tenth worldwide in the number of scientific publications. [132] Russia ranked 45th in the Global Innovation Index in 2021. [133]
Printable version; Page information; ... Map of Russia showing the federal subject flags as of 2020-03-10. ... 18 November 2024: 3,000 × 1,700 (9.94 MB)
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Russia is among the world's most educated countries, and has the third-highest proportion of tertiary-level graduates in terms of percentage of population, at 62%. [127] It spent roughly 4.7% of its GDP on education in 2018. [128] Russia has compulsory education for a duration of 11 years, exclusively for children aged 7 to 17–18. [126]
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According to the Rodnover questions–answers compendium Izvednik (Изведник), almost all Russian Rodnovers rely upon the Gregorian calendar and celebrate the "sunny holidays" (highlighted in yellow in the table herebelow), with the addition of holidays dedicated to Perun, Mokosh and Veles (green herebelow), the Red Hill ancestral holiday (orange herebelow), and five further holidays ...