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Capital: moscow
Country name
: conventional long form: russian federation conventional short form: russia local long form: rossiyskaya federatsiya local short form: rossiya former: russian empire. russian soviet federative socialist republic
National holiday: russia day. 12 june (1990)
Government type
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federation
Administrative divisions: 48 oblasts (oblastey. singular - oblast). 21 republics (respublik. singular - respublika). 9 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov. singular - avtonomnyy okrug). 7 krays (krayev. singular - kray). 2 federal cities (singular - gorod). and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') : oblasts: amur (blagoveshchensk). arkhangel'sk. astrakhan'. belgorod. bryansk. chelyabinsk. chita. irkutsk. ivanovo. kaliningrad. kaluga. kamchatka (petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy). kemerovo. kirov. kostroma. kurgan. kursk. leningrad. lipetsk. magadan. moscow. murmansk. nizhniy novgorod. novgorod. novosibirsk. omsk. orenburg. orel. penza. pskov. rostov. ryazan'. sakhalin (yuzhno-sakhalinsk). samara. saratov. smolensk. sverdlovsk (yekaterinburg). tambov. tomsk. tula. tver'. tyumen'. ul'yanovsk. vladimir. volgograd. vologda. voronezh. yaroslavl' : republics: adygeya (maykop). altay (gorno-altaysk). bashkortostan (ufa). buryatiya (ulan-ude). chechnya (groznyy). chuvashiya (cheboksary). dagestan (makhachkala). ingushetiya (magas). kabardino-balkariya (nal'chik). kalmykiya (elista). karachayevo-cherkesiya (cherkessk). kareliya (petrozavodsk). khakasiya (abakan). komi (syktyvkar). mariy-el (yoshkar-ola). mordoviya (saransk). sakha [yakutiya] (yakutsk). north ossetia (vladikavkaz). tatarstan (kazan'). tyva (kyzyl). udmurtiya (izhevsk) : autonomous okrugs: aga buryat (aginskoye). chukotka (anadyr'). evenk (tura). khanty-mansi. koryak (palana). nenets (nar'yan-mar). taymyr [dolgano-nenets] (dudinka). ust'-orda buryat (ust'-ordynskiy). yamalo-nenets (salekhard) : krays: altay (barnaul). khabarovsk. krasnodar. krasnoyarsk. permskiy. primorskiy (vladivostok). stavropol' : federal cities: moscow (moskva). saint petersburg (sankt-peterburg) : autonomous oblast: yevrey [jewish] (birobidzhan) note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses) |
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Independence:
24 august 1991 (from soviet union)
Political parties and leaders: communist party of the russian federation or cprf [gennadiy andreyevich zyuganov]; liberal democratic party of russia or ldpr [vladimir volfovich zhirinovskiy]; motherland bloc (rodina) [dmitriy rogozin]; union of right forces or sps [nikita belykh]; united russia [boris vyacheslavovich gryzlov]; yabloko party [grigoriy alekseyevich yavlinskiy]
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
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International organization participation
: apec. arf. asean (dialogue partner). bis. bsec. cbss. ce. cern (observer). cis. eapc. ebrd. g- 8. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icct (signatory). icftu. icrm. ida. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom (observer). iso. itu. laia (observer). miga. minurso. monuc. nam (guest). nsg. oas (observer). oic (observer). onub. opcw. osce. paris club. pca. pfp. sco. un. un security council. unamsil. unctad. unesco. unhcr. unido. unitar. unmee. unmil. unmis. unmovic. unoci. unomig. untso. upu. wco. wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto (observer). zc
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