Russia, whose official name is the Russian federation, is the largest country in the world. It is 17,075,400 square km and is twice the size of the USA, 73% of the country being urban and 27% rural. The population recorded in 1997 was 147,231,000 among which there are many religions such as atheism, Russian orthodox, Islam, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and Judaism. Even though Russia is a huge country a large proportion, approximately 99% is literate which gives the impression of a …showed first 75 words of 1423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1423 total…russia/maillist.html This is a mail index consisting of many issues of Newsline which gives general information on Russia. However, these issues have been selected and therefore it is questionable whether certain issues have been left out as the creator of the list may not agree with them. This is a good source for reading as a first source and then going to go and do some background reading on the information you gathered.