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What city is home to Russia's Pacific fleet?
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Vladivostok
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What Russian mountain range is generally considered to be the separation between European and Asian Russia?
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Ural
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Which Russian lake is the oldest lake in the world?
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Baikal
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Which mountain is the tallest in Europe?
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Mount Elbrus
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Which river is Europe's longest?
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Volga
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Considered to be Russia's first tsar, which ''terrible" leader blinded the architect of Saint Basil's Cathedral so that he would not reproduce something as beautiful?
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Ivan IV
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According to legend, which Russian monk was poisoned, shot and drowned before dying in 1916?
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Grigori Rasputin
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Which war opposed Russia to the Ottoman Empire, France and the United Kingdom?
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Crimean War
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What complex system of land organisation ,which lasted from the 12th century to 1861, included a hierarchy with Serfs and Knights?
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Feudal System
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Which Western-loving tsar build Saint Petersburg and implemented a beard tax?
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Peter I
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Who was Russia's first president?
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Boris Yeltsin
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Which alphabet does the Russian language use?
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Cyrillic
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Which language family does Russian belong to?
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Slavic
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Which Russian soup is made of beetroot and topped with sour cream?
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Borscht
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What spirit is often drunk in Russia and has hundreds of regional variants?
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Vodka
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What toys are often sold in Russia and are often called 'Russian nesting dolls' or 'Babushka Dolls'
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Matryoshka dolls
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Which writer wrote the famous 'War and Peace'?
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Leo Tolstoy
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Who composed '1812 Overture' and 'Swan Lake'?
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Which heavy piece of artillery ,used in the Napoleonic Wars, is heard in '1812 Overture'?
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Cannon
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Which branch of Christianity does 70% of Russians practice?
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Orthodox
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Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, what country still has hazy relations with Russia?
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United States
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Which minority group of Crimea ,deported by Stalin, represents 12,6% of the peninsula's population?
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Tatars
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What is the majority religion of Chechnya?
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Islam
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Even after the Soviet Union, which party received 11% of the votes in the 2018 elections?
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Communist Party
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According to Russian law, how many consecutive terms can a Russian president serve?
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Two
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Who was empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727?
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Catherine II
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