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Geography and climate
- Climate : In southern European Russia, they experience cold winters and hot dry summers. In northern and central European Russia, winters are long and dark, but the short summer can be mild. Siberia experiences bitterly cold, long winters, but the short mild summer can be quite pleasant, though rainy.
- Geography : Russia is a vast country and spans two continents. Siberia to the east is a part of Asia while the rest of Russia is a part of Europe. The terrain varies greatly.
- Seas / Oceans : Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Pacific Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, East Siberian Sea, Laptev Sea, Kara Sea, Barents Sea, Arctic Ocean
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- Surface : 17 075 400 Km2
- Population : 143 202 000 inhabitants
8.39 inhab./Km2 - Languages : Russian
- Political system : Republic since 1991.
- Religion : Russian Orthodox Church
- Capital : Moscow
- Main cities : Omsk, Kaliningrad, Kiev, St. Petersburg
- Currency : Rouble
As of 2006-03-02 : 0.02913000 euros = 1 rouble. - Electricity : 220 volts AC, 50Hz
Russia is split into 11 time zones:
Kaliningrad: GMT + 2.
Moscow, St Petersburg, Astrakhan: GMT + 3.
Izhevsk and Samara: GMT + 4.
Perm– Nizhnevartovsk: GMT + 5.
Omsk and Novosibirsk: GMT + 6.
Norilsk, Kyzyl: GMT + 7.
Bratsk– Ulan Ude: GMT + 8.
Chita, Yakutsk: GMT + 9.
Khabarovsk, Vladivostok: GMT + 10.
Magadan, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk: GMT + 11.
Petropavlosk: GMT + 12.