Continent Of Russia

Continent of Russia, is the the main topic of today's post. Russian language, Russian nation, currency, government, area, Moscow and so on.

Russia

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1. Russia is also known as "the Russian Federation", is a transcontinental {present in two continents } country located in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe.
2. 77% of Russia's area is in Asia, the western 23% of the country is located in Europe, 
3. European Russia occupies almost 40% of Europe's total area.
4. It covers over 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi) area.
5. It shares her borders with 16 sovereign nations.
6. It is the largest country in the world, the ninth-most populous region, as well as the most populous country in Europe too.
7. The name Russia is derived from 'Rus', a medieval state populated mostly by the East Slavs.
8. This proper name became more prominent in the later history and it typically was called by its inhabitants "Русская Земля" (russkaja zemlja), which can be translated as "Russian Land" or "Land of Rus". 
9. The current name of the country, Россия (Rossija), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus', Ρωσσία Rossía—spelled Ρωσία (Rosía pronounced [roˈsia]) in Modern Greek.
10. The standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is "Russians" in English and rossiyane (Russian: россияне) in Russian.

Moscow

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1. Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
2. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia.
3. This city has a population estimated at 12.4 million residents within the city.
4. Over 17 million residents live in the urban area and more than 20 million residents live in the Moscow Metropolitan Area as well.
5. The city covers an area of 2,511 square kilometres (970 sq mi).
6. The urban area covers 5,891 square kilometres (2,275 sq mi) and the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi).
7. Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe.
8. The most populous urban area in Europe, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, and also the largest city by land area on the European continent.

Official Language

1. Russian is an East Slavic language native to the Russians in Eastern Europe.
2. It is an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
3. Russian is being widely used throughout the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
4. It belongs to the family of Indo-European languages, one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages alongside and part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch.
5. Russian is the only official language at the national level.
6. There are 35 different languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with Russian.
7. The new approved amendments to the Russian Constitution stipulate that Russian is the language of the “state forming people”.

Religions

1. Christianity (Orthodox Christian) in Russia is the most widely supposed religion in the country, with nearly 71% of the population.
2. 27.5% of Russians are atheist and they claim no particular religion.
3. Islam is the Russia's second most widely professed religion.
4. According to US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14,220,000 or 10% of the total population.
5. According to a comprehensive survey, conducted in 2012, Muslims were 6.5% of the Russia's population.

Russians

1. Russians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
2. They share a common Russian ancestry, history and as well as their culture.
3. Russian is the shared mother tongue of the ethnic Russians and Orthodox Christianity is their historical religion.
4. They are the largest Slavic nation, as well as the largest nation in Europe.

Government

1. The politics of Russia take place in the framework of the federal semi-presidential republic of Russia.
2. A semi-presidential system or dual executive system is a system of government in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet.
3. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state.
4. The head of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government is Prime Minister.
5. The prime minister is appointed by the President with the parliament's approval.
6. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.

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Political figures of Russia

1. The president of the Russian Federation, is the head of the state. as well as the commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces.
2. The prime minister of Russia, is the head of the Russian government.
3. Prime minister is also the chief executive of the Russian Cabinet and the second most powerful figure of the Russian Federation.
4. The official residence of the prime minister is Gorki-9 in Odintsovsky District, Moscow.
5. But his/her (P.M) working residence is in Moscow.
6. Under Article 24 of the Federal Constitutional Law 'On the Government of the Russian Federation', the prime minister "heads the Government of the Russian Federation".

GDP of Russia

                                            GDP?

• Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period.

                                       GDP (PPP)?

• Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measurement of prices in different countries that uses the prices of specific goods to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.

Total GDP  (PPP)        $ 4.519 trillion

Per capita GDP  (PPP)        $ 30,819

                                          GDP (Nominal)?

• Nominal gross domestic product is gross domestic product (GDP) evaluated at current market prices.
• Nominal differs from real GDP in that it includes changes in prices due to inflation, which reflects the rate of price increases in an economy.

Total GDP  (Nominal)       $ 1.657 trillion

Per capita GDP  (Nominal)       $ 11,305

Currency of Russia

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1. Russian currency is Ruble
2. The ruble sign (₽) is the currency sign used for the Russian ruble.
3. It is the official currency of Russia.
4. It features a sans-serif Cyrillic letter Р with an additional horizontal stroke.
5. The design was approved on 11 December 2013 after a public poll that took place a month earlier.

Calling code

1. Telephone numbers in Russia are under a unified numbering plan with Kazakhstan, both of which share the international code +7.
2. +7 was used as the country calling code for all of the Soviet Union.
3. Following the Soviet break-up, all of its former republics, save for Russia and Kazakhstan, switched to new country codes.
4. Following Abkhazia's secession from Georgia, Abkhazia switched to the Russian telephone codes +7 840 for landlines and +7 940 for mobile phones.
5. Though it still can be reached through the Georgian telephone code +995 44.
6. Following the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the Republic of Crimea switched to the Russian telephone codes +7 978 for mobile phones and +7 365 for landlines.
7. While the city of Sevastopol switched to the codes +7 978 for mobile phones and +7 869 for landlines, since 7 May 2015.

ccTLD of Russia

1. "country code top-level domain" (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.
2. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
3. (.ru) is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Russian Federation introduced on April 7, 1994.
4. The Russian alphabet internationalized country code is .рф .In the Domain Name System it has the ASCII DNS name xn--p1ai.
5. The domain (.рф) accepts only Cyrillic subdomain applications, and is the first Cyrillic implementation of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) system.
6. The .рф became operational on 13 May 2010. As of 2014 it is the most used internationalized country code top-level domain, with around 900,000 domain names.

National things of Russia

1. The Eurasian brown bear is national animal of Russia.
2. It is one of the most common subspecies of the brown bear, and is found in much of Eurasia.
3. It is also known as the European brown bear, common brown bear, common bear, and colloquially by many other names.
4. Pelmeni is considered the national dish of Russia.
5. Pelmeni is pastry, typically filled with minced meat and wrapped in a thin, pasta-like dough.
6. It can be served alone, slathered in butter and topped with sour cream, or in a soup broth.

Symbol of Russia

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1. Double-headed eagle.
2. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a charge associated with the concept of Empire.
3. Most modern uses of the symbol are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire, whose use of it represented the Empire's dominion over the Near East and the West.
4. Coat of arms of Russia
5. The Soviet Union
6. Flag of Russia
7. Flag of Soviet Union
8. Victory Banner
9. Hammer and sickle.
10. Motherland, Mother Russia
11. Red star

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