1. the greatest and largest country in the world
Russia
the greatest and largest country in the world

2. General Geography
As the world's largest country, Russia has a very diverse geography.
Northern Russia extends into the Arctic Circle. This area is primarily tundra and forests, with thousands of lakes.
Russia has many mountain areas. The Ural mountains cover 2,500 miles of eastern Russia. From the western boarder to the Ural mountains is
the North European
Plain. This is a large
rolling plain with rich
soil and grasslands.

3. Government
Russia's government is a federal semi- presidential republic. This government is a multi party system with executive power. It is led by the prime minister appointed by the president.
Since may dmitry medvedev was appointed president. The current president right now in 2012 is vladimir putin.

4. goverment 2
Vladimir Putin standing next to Dmitry Medvedev.

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6. Climate Because of its size, most of Russia has
only two seasons, summer and winter, with very short intervals of change between them. In the north east
of russia, regions
experience six
months of snow
cover over permafrost
that is as deep as several hundred meters.

7. Climate 2
In the southeast of Russia there are temperatures ranging from 2 to 10 degrees celsius. In this region most of habitation happens due to the livable climate.
Vegetation
In Russia, most of the vegetation are grains, such as wheat barley, and oats. Sunflower seeds and corn are also a popular growing vegetation.

8. Country Flag The flags colors and what they mean:
The colors on the Russian flag are white blue and red. There are no official meanings but there are versions of what they mean.
The russian flag has the colors white blue and red ranging from the top in horizontal stripes to the bottom.

9. Country Flag Part 2
White: Stands for peace, innocence, perfection or liberty.
Blue: Stands for faith, loyalty, constancy or the Blessed Virgin.
Red: Stands for energy, power and blood, which was given to Motherland or Autocracy.

10. Currency
1 U.S. Dollar is equivalent to Rubles. 1 Russian ruble is equivalent to U.S. dollars.The Russian ruble is the name of the currencies of the Russian Federation and Belarus (and formerly, of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire).

11. currency 2
Over 100 years the value of the russian ruble has changed a lot. In 1988 the russian ruble was worth more than five dollars. In 1990 it was only worth a couple of pennies. They changed a 5 dollar bill into 5000 the extra zeros added on was harder to read.

12. Two Cultural Visuals Of Choice
Food: Some delicacies of food are:
Borsch: soup
Pelmeni: dumplings
Alivia: salad
Blini: crepes
Ikra:smashed
vegetables
Borsch
borsh a russian soup

13. Two cultural visuals of choice
The Kremel:
The Kremel is one of of the oldest building in Russia and also one of the most important.
It was built by 2 famous architects, which after the build got their eyes poked out so that russia would have only one unique building.

14. Kremal
Kremel,
built in
1485

15. Sources For Information And Pictures URL's
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