Russia got its independence June 12TH 1990. They declare themselves as independent and sovereign state. Russia is known as the Russian Federation. A year from that exact date they elected Boris Yeltsin as their democratic president. He was inaugurated July 10TH 1991.
3.4% is how much Russia has grown. 1.8% per 5 years compounded annually is its average growth. The percent of unemployment is 6.0% out of the population of 141.9 million.
Russia has 1 capital and 4 other major cities. Moscow, the capital has a population of 9,500,000. St. Petersburg has 4,400,000 less at 5,100,000. Novosibirsk has about 3,700,000. Nizhny is not quit as big as Moscow but it has 1,400,000. Then there is Yekaterinburg with a small amount of citizens at 1,310,000.
Russia has multiple vacation sites. Such as St. Petersburg where you can go see ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre. In Moscow there is a massive library called Lenin Russian State Library. The shelves in the library are 275 km long.
Russia’s population is 171,110,000 less than ours. Our government is federal presidential constitutional republic two-party system. Theirs is federal semi-presidential constitutional republic. The current leader of Russia is Boris Yeltsin as ours is Barack Obama.
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