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Russia, or the Russian Federation, 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. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries.
2 days ago · Stay on top of Russia latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.
2 days ago · Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union ), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
2 days ago · Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other former republics of the Soviet Union.
Eight killed in deadly fire at Moscow office building. State media reported that one man was rescued from the blaze and is being treated at a hospital. Europe. 24 Jun 2024.
Jun 6, 2024 · Twenty-seven months on, the war rages on. Far from being crippled, Russia’s economy is growing. The International Monetary Fund predicts that Russia will record economic growth of 3.2% this...
2 days ago · Russia sent Kilo attack submarine toward Irish Sea twice, Bloomberg News reports. Russian attack submarines have conducted missions around the Irish Sea twice since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine...
May 17, 2024 · Russian forces have crossed the international border to the north of Ukraine's second biggest city Kharkiv and have made what analysts are calling "tactically significant advances".
4 days ago · 27 January 2024 Government approves amendments on the legalisation of Russian and foreign documents 30 December 2023 Government extends the temporary ban on the export of rice and rice cereals and approves quotas for duty-free exports of grain, sunflower oil and sunflower meal from Russia’s new regions in 2024
