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Russia, n.
more info a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
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Russia
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Russian
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empire, imperium
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Eurasia
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Muscovy
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czar, tsar, tzar Alexander I, Czar Alexander I, Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexander II, Czar Alexander II, Alexander the Liberator Alexander III, Czar Alexander III Nicholas I, Czar Nicholas I
more info a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
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Russia Soviet Union USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Russian Revolution, February Revolution Russian Revolution, October Revolution Russian razbliuto pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki kvass kolkhoz steppe tovarich, tovarisch Stern, Isaac Stern balagan svoboda
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country, land, state
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Eurasia
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Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Caspian, Caspian Sea
more info a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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Russia Russian Federation
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Russian
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Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS
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Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, SVR
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country, land, state
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Karelia Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, Russian capital Astrakhan Cherepovets Chechnya, Chechenia, Chechen Republic Grozny, Groznyy Kaluga Khabarovsk Kursk Siberia European Russia Nizhnyi Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Gorki, Gorky, Gorkiy Kazan St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg Murmansk Nalchik Novgorod Perm, Molotov Rostov, Rostov on Don, Rostov na Donu Saratov Smolensk Ufa Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn Novosibirsk Chelyabinsk Omsk Vladivostok Novaya Zemlya, Nova Zembla Kola Peninsula Amur, Amur River, Heilong Jiang, Heilong Dnieper, Dnieper River Don, Don River Lake Ilmen, Ilmen Lake Ladoga, Ladoga Lake Onega, Onega Neva, Neva River Tien Shan, Tyan Shan Urals, Ural Mountains Vetluga, Vetluga River Volga, Volga River Volkhov, Volkhov River
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Eurasia
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Asian Russia
more info formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
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Russia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
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Borodino
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Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR Eurasia
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Soviet Socialist Republic
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Komi Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari Ingrian, Inger, Ingerman Mordva, Mordvin, Mordvinian Veps, Vepse, Vepsian Vogul, Mansi Russian