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RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] 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. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
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The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of...
- Demographics of Russia
It is the most populous country in Europe, and the...
- Languages of Russia
In the 18th and 19th centuries, French was a common language...
- Republics
The republics are one type of federal subject of the Russian...
- Federation Council
Federation Council Building in 2017. The Federation Council,...
- Annexation of Four Ukrainian Regions
Date: 30 September 2022; 16 months ago (): Location:...
- Orthographic Projection
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit...
- History of Russia
Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod,...
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At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world. It covers more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the world's eighth most populous nation with 140 million people as of 2022. Russia produces a lot of energy made from oil and natural gas.
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. The country's capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's ...
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Difficult issues are resolved through the Arbitration Committee, which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibits certain users from editing articles on certain topics. Administrators (currently 70) are elected through a vote; a minimum quorumof 30 voters and 66% of support votes are required if the request is to be considered successful. ...
As of 1 June 2012, some of the biggest categories (which contain more than 5,000 articles) in the Russian Wikipedia are: 1. 176,411 biographical articles. Although the Western name order (given name(s) followed by family name) is generally used in Russian, the Russian Wikipedia uses lexical order (last name, comma, given name(s) and also the patron...
In 2015, Roman Leibov[ru; et], a professor at the University of Tartu, in an interview opined that articles related to humanities in the Russian Wikipedia are of considerably inferior quality compared to English Wikipedia, and some articles even deteriorate with time. He suggested that this effect is due to overzealous policing of intellectual prop...
The main page was created on 7 November 2002.On 30 December 2004, the 10,000th article was created.On 23 December 2005, the 50,000th article was created.On 16 August 2006, the 100,000th article was created.Early years
The Russian Wikipedia was created on 20 May 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The first edit of the Russian Wikipedia was on 24 May 2001, and consisted of the line "Россия – великая страна" ("Russia is a great nation"). The following edit changed it to the joke: "Россия – родина слонов (ушастых, повышенной проходимости – см. мамонт)" ("Russia...
Troubles with the Russian government
On 10 July 2012, Russian Wikipedia closed access to its content for 24 hours in protest against proposed amendments to Russia's Information Act (Bill No. 89417-6) regulating the accessibility of Internet-based information to children. Among other things, the bill stipulates the creation and country-wide enforcement of blacklists, which would block access to forbidden sites. Several aspects of this amendment drew criticism from various civil rights activists and Internet providers.[citation ne...
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The Russian economy risked going into recession from early 2014, mainly due to falling oil prices, sanctions, and the subsequent capital flight. [134] While in 2014 GDP growth remained positive at 0.6%, [135] in 2015 the Russian economy shrunk by 3.7% and was expected to shrink further in 2016. [136]
