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Russia is a member of the G20, the OSCE, and the APEC. It is also the leading member of organisations such as the CIS, [292] the EAEU, [293] the CSTO, [294] the SCO, [295] and BRICS. [296] Russia maintains close relations with neighbouring Belarus, which is a part of the Union State, a supranational confederation of the two states. [297]
The flag of Russia. Russia, or the Russian Federation, 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. Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
The wildlife of Russia inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones and from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south, including temperate forests which cover 70% of the country. Russia's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [1] as well as 33% of all temperate forest. [2]
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]
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
Russia is a transcontinental country extending across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe; it spans 11 time zones and incorporates a great range of environments and landforms. With 143 million people, Russia is the ninth most populated country. Russia has the world's largest mineral and energy resources, has the world's largest forest ...
Media in category "Featured pictures of Russia" The following 56 files are in this category, out of 56 total. 2020-09-16 165855 Soviet submarine B-515.jpg 7,296 × 3,648; 20.1 MB
Natural gas, a resource of which Russia holds around forty percent of the world's reserves, can be found along Siberia's Arctic coast, in the North Caucasus, and in northwestern Russia. Major iron-ore deposits are located south of Moscow, near the Ukrainian border in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly ; this area contains vast deposits of iron ore that ...