Capital city: Moscow

Land area: total: 17,075,200 sq km
land: 16,995,800 sq km
water: 79,400 sq km

Population: 143,420,309 (July 2005 est.)

Life expectancy: total population: 67.1 years
male: 60.55 years
female: 74.04 years (2005 est.)
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other

Languages: Russian, many minority languages

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.6%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.5% (2003 est.)

Currency Code: Russian ruble (RUR

Three facts about Russia:

(1.) the local name of Russia is Rossiyskaya .

(2.) It was founded in the twelfth Century.

(.3) Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire.