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An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia from Russian to English uses the term "constituent entities of the Russian Federation". For example, Article 5 reads: "The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian ...
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. [318] Russia possesses the second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines , [ 319 ] and is one of the only three countries operating strategic bombers . [ 320 ]
The following is a list of 83 of the 89 [1] federal subjects of Russia in order of population according to the 2010 and 2021 Russian Census. The totals of all federal subjects do not include nationals living abroad at the time of census.
For example, Switzerland was a UNGA non-member observer state from 1948 to 2002, until becoming a full member of the UN on September 10, 2002. Currently, there are two non-member observer states, namely the Holy See and the State of Palestine. They are both referred to as "non-member States having received a standing invitation to participate ...
Federalism and Democratisation in Russia. Manchester University Press. pp. 24– 25. ISBN 978-0-7190-5869-1. Roeder, Philip (2007). Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism. Princeton University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-691-12728-6. Sotiriou, Stylianos (2019). Politics and International Relations in Eurasia ...
Three capitals are too small to make the list: Naryan-Mar (pop. 25,795), Magas (pop. 15,279), and Anadyr (pop. 15,079). Pyatigorsk is the administrative centre of North Caucasian Federal District but not of any federal subject. Cities in grey are in areas annexed by Russia that the international community considers illegally occupied by Russia. [1]
Russia, a country in Eurasia known in several languages as Rusia; Rusia, a name formerly applied to several mediaeval and early modern states, see Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia; Rusia, Poland, a rural settlement in Poland; Magda Rusia, Georgian gymnast
Similarly, Russia also annexed four Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporozhzhia on 30 September 2022 after internationally-unrecognized referendums held days prior, during the invasion of Ukraine that began in late February, which were organized by Russian occupation authorities in territories where hostilities were ongoing ...