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发信人: bleu (再别萧然), 信区: foreign_lg
标 题: Brief Introduction to Russia
发信站: 听涛站 (2001年09月02日02:45:44 星期天), 站内信件
Brief Introduction to Russia
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Xinhuanet 2001.08.29 12:18:36
Russia covers an area of 17,075,200 sq. km and has a population of almo
st 150 million people.
Russia is a multiethnic society. The largest ethnic groups include Russ
ians (81.5 percent), Tatars (3.8 percent), Ukrainians (3 percent), Chuvash
(1.2 percent), Bashkir (0.9 percent), Byelorussians (0.8 percent), Moldavia
ns (0.7 percent), etc. Over 80 percent of the population name Russian - the
official language of the country - as their native. Other languages are us
ed in ethnic minority regions.
Russia has equal religious diversity: with the main religions being Rus
sian Orthodox Christianity and Muslim overall over 150 confessions could be
found across the country.
The capital of the Russian Federation is Moscow. With a populaiton of 1
0 million, it is the largest city in the country, its principal economic an
d political center - the seat of the President, the government and the Stat
e Duma (Parliament).
The country possesses a wide array of natural resources including major
deposits of oil, coal, natural gas, many types of strategic minerals, diam
onds and timber.
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