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  2. Borders of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since. Russia shares land borders with 14 countries owing to its large expanse, tied with China in being more than any other state in the world, but there are sea boundaries with two more countries.

  3. Russia - Wikipedia

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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 area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised ...

  4. Russian-occupied territories - Wikipedia

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    In April 2010, the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee asked the legislative bodies of 31 countries to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia as territories under Russian occupation and to recognize the massive displacement of civilians from those regions by Russia as amounting to ethnic cleansing. [16]

  5. Republics of Russia - Wikipedia

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    However, the Constitutional Court of Russia ruled after the unilateral secession of Chechnya in 1991 that the republics do not have the right to secede and are inalienable parts of the country. [94] Despite this, some republican constitutions in the 1990s had articles giving them the right to become independent.

  6. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Eurasia

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    Constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark: Faroese: Føroyar Danish: Færøerne: Tórshavn Faroese: Tórshavn Danish: Thorshavn: Gibraltar: British overseas territory: Gibraltar Gibraltar: Guernsey [n 7] Bailiwick of Guernsey Crown dependency of The Crown in Right of Guernsey English: Guernsey Guernésiais: Guernesey: English: Bailiwick of ...

  7. List of countries and territories by the United Nations ...

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    This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...

  8. Putin says West will be fighting directly with Russia if it ...

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    President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he ...

  9. Geography of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area.