Russia has more than 100,000 rivers with a length of 7 miles, or greater. Some of the world’s longest rivers flow through the vast lowland plains that dominate the Russian landscape. Significant rivers include the Volga, Dnieper and Dvina (west), the Lena, Ob, and Yenisey (central) and the Amur in the far east.

It’s not without a little conflict that we post images of male nudes from Russia. The country as a whole has a reputation of profound homophobia.

Everyone thinks Russians are crazy, perma-drunk, and infinitely angry—and that’s probably true sometimes, but mostly it’s not! We’re regular people, I swear.

The name Russia is derived from Rus’, a medieval state populated mostly by the East Slavs.However, this proper name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants "Русская Земля" (russkaja zemlja), which can be translated as "Russian Land" or "Land of Rus’".

There’s a reason today’s NYT story so infuriates me — to say nothing of Trump’s efforts to declassify documents from the Russia investigation that, because of the personnel moves of virtually everyone involved, would mostly end by August 1, 2017.. That’s because it’s clear that — because Peter Strzok lost an August 2016 battle to investigate more aggressively in summer and fall

This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report 2000 for Russia.Supplemental material has been added to increase coverage of cities, facts have been updated, and some material has been condensed.

President-elect Donald Trump delivered his first formal press conference following the November presidential election in New York on Wednesday. (Jan. 11) AP The political world continues to get

Language and Alphabet: Approximately 100 languages are spoken throughout Russia, but Russian is the official language and is also one of the official languages of the United Nations. Tatar and Ukrainian make up the largest language ities. Russia uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

2. Russia won the World War II and saved the humanity from fascist Germany. This fact probably is surprising for you. You may not even be aware that Soviet Union was a part of the coalition (together with the United Kingdom and the USA) that fought against the Nazis.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, had his security clearance downgraded last week from a top-secret level to a secret level — meaning he lost access to classified