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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia 00:05:32 1 Etymology 00:07:19 2 History 00:07:28 2.1 Early history 00:09:14 2.2 Kievan Rus' 00:12:33 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow 00:14:49 2.4 Tsardom of Russia 00:19:10 2.5 Imperial Russia 00:24:38 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic 00:26:13 2.7 Soviet Russia and civil war 00:27:46 2.8 Soviet Union 00:31:41 2.8.1 World War II 00:36:03 2.8.2 Cold War 00:40:19 2.9 Russian Federation 00:47:10 3 Politics 00:47:19 3.1 Governance 00:49:28 3.2 Foreign relations 00:54:06 3.3 Military 00:57:02 3.4 Political divisions 00:59:52 4 Geography 01:01:04 4.1 Topography 01:04:56 4.2 Climate 01:07:07 4.3 Biodiversity 01:08:19 5 Economy 01:15:44 5.1 Energy 01:18:19 5.2 External trade and investment 01:19:12 5.3 Agriculture 01:21:22 5.4 Transport 01:26:09 5.5 Science and technology 01:32:23 5.6 Space exploration 01:34:41 5.7 Water supply and sanitation 01:35:25 5.8 Corruption 01:38:01 6 Demographics 01:43:21 6.1 Largest cities 01:43:29 6.2 Ethnic groups 01:43:55 6.3 Language 01:45:19 6.4 Religion 01:55:31 6.5 Health 01:57:25 6.6 Education 01:59:19 7 Culture 01:59:27 7.1 Folk culture and cuisine 02:02:48 7.2 Architecture 02:06:16 7.3 Visual arts 02:09:16 7.4 Music and dance 02:12:01 7.5 Literature and philosophy 02:15:32 7.6 Cinema, animation and media 02:19:16 7.7 Sports 02:26:13 7.8 National holidays and symbols 02:30:11 7.9 Tourism 02:33:06 8 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.840215070640857 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is one of the largest cities in the world and the second largest city in Europe; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities and achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, wh ... |