RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russia is the largest country in the world by total area, spanning eleven time zones across Eastern Europe and northern Asia from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. It was the dominant republic of the Soviet Union, the world’s first constitutionally socialist state, which existed from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991, and remains one of the world’s major military and geopolitical powers, holding a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
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