It is a federal semi-presidential republic. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait and Canada's Arctic islands. At 17,125,187 squar
e kilometers, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the world's ninth most populous nation with 146 million people as of 2014.
Two suspected terrorists who are believed to have sworn their allegiance to Islamic State were killed in on Friday during a counter-terrorism operation led by the and Internal Affairs Ministry.
President Vladimir will visit at the invitation of President of Serzh Sargsyan on April 24, to take part in events commemorating 100 years since the Armenian genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire.
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11/04/2015
President and prime minister attend Orthodox Easter Liturgy Mass in Moscow (Cathedral of Christ the Saviour).
Live stream: youtu.be/8DcUK3rXXx4
31/03/2015
Russian special forces ( ) reportedly neutralised Shakhban Gasanov and a group of militants in Khasavyurt Tuesday, after storming the housing complex where the group was barricaded up.
The new armored tracked platform!!!!
-125 mm 2A82-1M smoothbore cannon
-30 mm sub-caliber ranging gun
-12.5 mm turret-mounted heavy machine gun is reportedly capable of taking out incoming projectiles, such as anti-tank missiles.