Russia (from the Greek. Ρωσία — Rus[11]; officially the RussianFederation[5], in practice it is used also reduction RF[6]) is a countryin Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Population at the beginning of2013 is 143 million people, the area — 17 098 246 km2[3]. Occupies thefirst place in the world by territory and the ninth largest bypopulation.Capital — Moscow. The official language is Russian.Mixedfederated Republic of the device. In may 2012 took the post of thePresident Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev.Accordingto the Constitution of the Russian Federation are 83 subjects, 46 ofwhich are named oblasts, 21 republics, 9 — edged, 2 cities of Federalsignificance, 4 — Autonomous districts and 1 Autonomous oblast.Russiaborders with eighteen countries (the largest number in the world) ,including two partially recognized, of which the land with the followingcountries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,Belarus, Ukraine, Abkhazia[12], Georgia[12], South Ossetia[12],Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea.Is asignificant ethno-cultural diversity. A large part of the believers (about 75% of the population[13]) professes Orthodoxy, that makesRussia a country with the largest Orthodox population in the world.
