Euronews
| Apr 13, 2013
Russian relations with America took another turn for the worse when Russia published a retaliatory list banning 18 Americans from visiting the country. The Russian list is in response to the "Magnitsky" list of 18 Russians already issued by the US...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 11, 2013
Mikhail Beretov died this week but fellow journalists say he was killed five years ago, when a savage beating left him with brain damage. The attack came after Beretov worked tirelessly to expose corruption surrounding the building of a highway th...
Russia Today
| Apr 5, 2013
The prevalence of dash-cams on Russian cars has yielded another gem. The driver of a BMD-2 tank -- who was drunk, according to some reports -- struggles through an intersection before crashing straight into a streetlight.
Russia Today
| Apr 3, 2013
Dozens of fire crews struggled against a massive high-rise blaze in the Chechen capital Grozny yesterday after a luxury 40-story skyscraper caught fire. There were no deaths or injuries inside the unoccupied building, the Russian republic's tallest.
Vice
| Apr 2, 2013
In 1936 a Russian family of "Old Believers," an ultra-orthodox Christian sect, journeyed deep into Siberia's vast, unforgiving taiga, hundreds of miles from civilization, to protect their way of life. The last remaining family member is Agafia Lyk...
Euronews
| Mar 29, 2013
Soldiers have joined a mass rally in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, after leader Kim Jong-un stepped up threats against the US. He has signed off an order, putting missile units on standby to attack American bases in neighboring South Korea a...
NTDTV
| Mar 27, 2013
Lawyer and anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky died after alleged mistreatment in jail in 2009, but that hasn't stopped Russia putting him on trial for tax evasion. His family says the charges are fabricated and the bizarre trial is...
The New York Times
| Mar 26, 2013
Scientists around the world have been using videos made by Russian citizens and uploaded to YouTube to figure out exactly where the meteor that exploded over Russia on February 15 came from.
Channel 4 News
| Mar 23, 2013
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home in the United Kingdom. Berezovsky held considerable influence in Russian politics until his exile in the late 90's, when he became a vocal critic of Vladmir Putin.
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 22, 2013
The Cypriot government says the next few hours will determine the future of the country. Politicans are to debate how to stop the country from going bankrupt. The European Central Bank says they have until Monday to figure out how to raise more...
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Russia or, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400 square kilometres, 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 143 million people as of 2012. Extending across the whole of northern Asia, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the world's largest forest reserves. Its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water, 20% in Lake Baikal alone.
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