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Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy (St Martin's Press, 1999). online; Nizameddin, Talal. “Squaring the Middle East Triangle in Lebanon: Russia and the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah Nexus.” Slavonic and East European Review 86#3, (2008), pp. 475–500, online. Primakov, Yevgeny. Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the ...
Russia has urged that the Russian language receive official status in all of the CIS member states. So far Russian is an official language in only four states: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Russian is also considered an official language in the region of Transnistria and the autonomous region of Gagauzia in Moldova.
Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since Typical border marker of Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as two narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan.
Southern Asia – the UN geoscheme includes Afghanistan and Iran in this subregion; Western Asia – the UN geoscheme includes Cyprus, the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), and Turkey in this subregion; by geography: Central Asia; East Asia. Greater China. China. Hong Kong (some geographers consider it as a part of Northeast Asia)
MEESA: Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa [citation needed] MEISA: Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa [13] MENA: Middle East and North Africa; MENACA: Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia [14] MEP: Middle East and Pakistan [15] META: Middle East, Turkey and Africa [citation needed] MRU: the Mano River Union, consisting of ...
It also highlights China’s deep economic interests in both Russia and the Middle East, which it wants to safeguard at all cost. The world’s second largest economy depends on Russia and the ...
Forty of Russia's rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) are east of the Ural Mountains, including the three major rivers that drain Siberia as they flow northward to the Arctic Ocean: the Irtysh-Ob system (totaling 5,380 kilometres or 3,340 miles), the Yenisey (5,075 kilometres or 3,153 miles), and the Lena (4,294 kilometres or 2,668 ...
The Russian Far East (Russian: Дальний Восток России, IPA: [ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ]) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent , and is coextensive with the Far Eastern Federal District , which encompasses the area between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean .