1.
The Russian Federation - Russia is the official name of our country/homeland.
2. There are 21 republics in the Russian Federation (Adygea, Altai, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North Ossetia-Alania, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Tuva (Tyva), Khakassia, Chechnya, Chuvashia)
3. Boris Yeltsin was the first Russian President.
4. The constitution is the highest law of Russia.
5. Vladimir Putin is the Russian President at the moment.
The Prime Minister is Dmitry Medvedev.
6. Russia stopped being a monarchy and became a republic in 1917.
7. Moscow is the capital of Russia. It's the biggest city of Russia.
8. St.Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Kazan, Omsk, Tomsk.
9. Yes, it is. Russia is the largest country in the world.
10. The Altai mountains are situated in Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together. The Caucasus mountains are situated in the south-west of Russia, next to the Black Sea.
11. The Lena is in the north-eastern part of Siberia. The Ob is situated in Western Siberia. There are many rivers in Russia. Their names are the Yenisei, The Volga, the Kama, the Amur, etc.
12. The country is washed by the Pacific and Artic oceans and by the Baltic, the Black and the Azov seas.
13. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest, purest, most ancient and most capacious freshwater lake. Lake Baikal alone contains over one fifth of the world's volume of fresh water.
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