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RUSSIA
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Russia, officially
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Russian Federation
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The country's name in Russian
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Rossiya / Россия
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Capital
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Moscow
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2nd-biggest city
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St. Petersburg
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Its former name
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Leningrad
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Current president
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Vladimir Putin
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^ was member of this security agency
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KGB
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Martial art practiced by him
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Judo
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Residence of the President
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Kremlin
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Holiday celebrated on 9 May
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Victory Day
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Colors on their flag
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White
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Blue
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Red
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Longest river in Europe
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Volga
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^ flows into this Sea
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Caspian Sea
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Very popular alcoholic drink
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Vodka
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Form of christianity popular in Eastern Europe
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Orthodoxy
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Vast Eastern region, sparsely populated
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Siberia
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Socialist state, predecessor of Russia
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Soviet Union
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Its abbreviation
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U.S.S.R.
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Its first leader
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Vladimir Lenin
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Its ideology
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Communism
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Its leader 1922-1953
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Joseph Stalin
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Longest railway line in the world
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Trans-Siberian Railway
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Title used for leaders, derived from Caesar
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Tsar
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The two 'great' leaders
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Catherine the Great
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Peter the Great
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Last emperor of Russia
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Nicholas II.
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Peninsula annexed in 2014
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Crimea
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This peninsula was part of this country before 2014
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Ukraine
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2014 Winter Olympics location
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Sochi
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^ is on which Sea?
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Black Sea
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Russia's largest island
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Sakhalin
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Famous firearm also known as 'AK-47'
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Kalashnikov
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Typical Russian stringed musical instrument
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Balalaika
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Set of wooden dolls that can be placed inside another
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Matryoshka
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Other word for ^, meaning "grandmother"
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Babushka
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President 2008-2012
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Upper house of the Federal Assembly
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Federation Council
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Lower house of the Federal Assembly
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State Duma
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Biggest port on the Pacific
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Vladivostok
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First human in space
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Yuri Gagarin
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First satellite in space
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Sputnik 1
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First animal to orbit the Earth
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Laika
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Space station that operated 1986-2001
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MIR
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Brand of cars, popular in Eastern Europe
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Lada
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Peninsula in the Far East
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Kamchatka
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Biggest city on the above
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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Labor camp system
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Gulag
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Largest city north of the Arctic Circle
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Murmansk
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Revolution in Russia in 1917
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October Revolution
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This revolution was led by the ....
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Bolsheviks
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City in Western Russia or 2000 submarine disaster
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Kursk
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Industrial city in the very north closed to all non-Russians (except for Belarusians)
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Norilsk
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Mountainous borders between Europe and Asia
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Caucasus
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Ural
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Highest mountain of Russia
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Elbrus
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Name the three longest rivers of Russia
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Lena
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Yenisey
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Ob
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The two biggest Russian lakes
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Lake Baikal
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Lake Ladoga
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World-famous church in the capital
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Saint Basil's Cathedral
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This separates ^ from the President's residence
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Red Square
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He was the leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Mr. .... , tear down this wall!
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Words often used by ^, publicity and reformation
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glasnost
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perestroika
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Year of Russia's last independence
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1991
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First president
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Boris Yeltsin
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Video game with the goal to drop blocks down to make lines
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Tetris
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Type of administrative division in Russia
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Oblast
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One of the best hockey leagues in the world
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KHL
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Famous Russian ice hockey player, currently playing in the U.S. for the Washington Capitals
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Alexander Ovechkin
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Best-paid female athlete
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Maria Sharapova
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Writing system used in Russia
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Cyrillic
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Form of power where a few people have much power
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Oligarchy
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Archipelago where the Tsar Bomba was tested
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Novaya Zemlya
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Peninsula which forms the northernmost part of Eurasia
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Taymyr
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Peninsula which forms the easternmost part of Asia
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Chukchi
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Archipelago claimed by Japan und Russia
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Kuril Islands
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Loose federation of tribes, 882-1240
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Kievan Rus
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The 'terrible' leader
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Ivan the Terrible
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City formerly known as Gorky
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Nizhny Novgorod
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Bronze monument which shows 1,000 years of Russian history
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Millennium of Russia
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The last island where mammoths lived
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Wrangel
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Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky
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The Nutcracker
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Former name of Volgograd
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Stalingrad
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Term used in Russia for the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945
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Great Patriotic War
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Caucasian region which has tried to leave Russia
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Chechnya
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Town with temperature extremes, 35°C in summer, -65°C in winter
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Oymyakon
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Peasant and faith healer
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Grigori Rasputin
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Writer regarded as one of the greatest authors, War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy
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Jeweled egg
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Fabergé
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Large company focused on production, transport and sale of oil and gas
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Gazprom
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Museum of art und culture, Winter Palace building
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Hermitage
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Popular sour soup
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Borscht
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Russian novelist, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Ring of cities around Moscow
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Golden Ring
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What Russia held in 2018
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FIFA World Cup
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