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National Animal: Bear
National Motto: "God is with us" National Bird: Golden Bicephalic Eagle National Tree: Birch 
Russia – our beloved country. A mighty will, great glory – These are yours for all time! Chorus: Be glorious, our free Fatherland, Age-old union of fraternal peoples, National wisdom given by our forebears! Be glorious, our country! We are proud of you! From the southern seas to the polar lands Spread our forests and fields. You are unique in the world, one of a kind – Native land protected by God! Chorus Wide spaces for dreams and for living Are opened for us by the coming years Our loyalty to our Fatherland gives us strength. Thus it was, thus it is and always will be! Chorus
24 August 1991
(from the Soviet Union); notable earlier dates: 1157 16 January 1547 22 October 1721 (Soviet Union established) President - Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV 
Sheremetyevo International Airport
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Russian Federation
Moscow
 Exchange Rate: 30 RUB = 1USDRussian
138 million (July 2011 est.)
total area: 17,098,242 sq km
land: 16,377,742 sq km water: 720,500 sq km
Total: 20,241.5 km
Azerbaijan - 284 km Belarus - 959 km China (southeast) - 3,605 km China (south) - 40 km Estonia - 290 km Finland - 1,313 km Georgia - 723 km Kazakhstan - 6,846 km North Korea - 17.5 km Latvia - 292 km Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) - 227 km Mongolia - 3,441 km Norway - 196 km Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) - 432 km Ukraine 1,576 kmFederal Subjects List
Moscow
Saint Petersburg Novosibirsk Yekaterinburg Nizhny Novgorod Samara Kazan Omsk Chelyabinsk Rostov-on-DonRussian
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$15,900 (2010 est.) Russian Orthodox, Muslim
ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia;
subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast+7
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lowest point: Caspian Sea -28 m
highest point: Gora El'brus 5,633 m
Volga
Don Kama Oka
Lake Baikal
Lake Ladoga
Russia Day - 12 June (1990)
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