All About - Russia (Extended)

• published: 14 Feb 2015
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What is Russia? A documentary report all about Russia for the blind and visually impaired or for homework/assignment. Russia (from the — Rus', ; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. At, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the world's ninth most populous nation with nearly 144 million people as of 2014. Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Text to Speech powered by tts-api.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: 2000px-Percentage_of_Russians_by_region.svg.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russia_natural_population_growth_rates_2012.PNG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russian_Tsardom_1500_to_1700.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsardom_of_Russia 2000px-Soviet_Union_-_Russian_SFSR_(1922).svg.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russia_ethnic.JPG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire Ethnic_map_of_Russia_1989.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia World_around_1900.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Bear Russian_Empire_Map.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire