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PROFILE
  • Area: 17,098,242 sq. km (6,601,665 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 142,355,415 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: -0.06% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 70.8 years (2016)
  • Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%
  • Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%
  • Formal name: Russian Federation
  • Alternate names: Rossiya, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, Russian Federation, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Repub
  • Government type: semi-presidential federation
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN; head of government: Premier Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV
  • Capital: Moscow
  • Administrative divisions: 46 provinces, 21 republics, 4 autonomous districts, 9 regions, 2 federal cities, and 1 autonomous province
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $25,400 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
  • Imports: machinery, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, plastic, semi-finished metal products, meat, fruits and nuts, optical and medical instruments, iron, steel
  • Currency: Russian ruble (RUB)
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