Russian Federation
Largest country today
The Russian Federation is the formal name for Russia, the world's largest country by land area, spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
The name dates from 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became an independent state.
In everyday usage, most people simply say Russia: Relations between the Russian Federation and NATO have deteriorated.
Russian authoritarian leader
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- oligarchsWealthy few who govern
Medvedev · rubles · sanctions · autocracy · centralized · presidency · state-controlled · nationalism
Moscow's fortified government seat
- balalaikaRussian triangular stringed instrument
- samovarWater-heating tea vessel
- CyrillicSlavic alphabet system
- BorschtBeet-based Slavic soup
Tolstoy · Dostoevsky · Chekhov · Pushkin · Tchaikovsky · Stravinsky · Bolshoi · Fabergé
Russia's eastern expanse
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- taigaSubarctic evergreen biome
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- VolgaEurope's longest river
Ural · Caucasus · permafrost · steppes · Kamchatka · Baikal · Arctic · Vladivostok
Collective ownership system
- LeninSoviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- USSRFormer communist superpower
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
Red Army · KGB · collectivization · Politburo · October Revolution · hammer and sickle · Iron Curtain · Cold War
Russia's eastern expanse
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
- frostThin ice coating
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
ice · blizzard · subzero · arctic · freezing · winter · cold · taiga
Operating across multiple countries
- ChechnyaRussian republic, Caucasus region
- ethnicOf a cultural group
- republicsStates with elected governance
- CaucasusMountain range, Black to Caspian
indigenous · Tatar · autonomous · minorities · languages · Muslim · Buddhist · federated
Putin
Russian authoritarian leader
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
oligarchs · Medvedev · rubles · sanctions · autocracy · centralized · presidency · state-controlled · nationalism · sovereignty
Kremlin
Moscow's fortified government seat
- balalaikaRussian triangular stringed instrument
- samovarWater-heating tea vessel
- CyrillicSlavic alphabet system
Borscht · Tolstoy · Dostoevsky · Chekhov · Pushkin · Tchaikovsky · Stravinsky · Bolshoi · Fabergé · icon
Siberia
Russia's eastern expanse
Volga · Ural · Caucasus · permafrost · steppes · Kamchatka · Baikal · Arctic · Vladivostok · Petersburg
communism
Collective ownership system
Bolsheviks · Red Army · KGB · collectivization · Politburo · October Revolution · hammer and sickle · Iron Curtain · Cold War · Khrushchev
Siberia
Russia's eastern expanse
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
- frostThin ice coating
snow · ice · blizzard · subzero · arctic · freezing · winter · cold · taiga · harsh
multinational
Operating across multiple countries
- ChechnyaRussian republic, Caucasus region
- ethnicOf a cultural group
- republicsStates with elected governance
Caucasus · indigenous · Tatar · autonomous · minorities · languages · Muslim · Buddhist · federated · oblasts
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Romanov, czars, tsar
- Post-Cold WarUSSR dissolution, Soviet collapse, German reunification, Eastern Bloc, Boris Yeltsin
- Post-SovietUkraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Slavic WorldPoland, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia
- Soviet collapseGorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, USSR, Soviet Union
- Soviet economicscommand economy, planned economy, five-year plan, collectivization, collective farms
Russian FederationUnited States
North American federal republic
NATO · United States of America · Ukraine · European Union · United Kingdom
Russian Federationliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
Norway · Sweden · Finland · Denmark · Switzerland
Federation, Russification, Russia, Russian, Russians, Russify, Russophobia