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Website. sochiadm .ru. Sochi (Russian: Сочи, IPA: [ˈsotɕɪ] ⓘ, from Ubykh: Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, [ 11] and up to 600,000 residents in the urban area.
Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country ...
Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's former Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city . The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ...
European Russia[ a] is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia, encompassing the entire northern region of the continent. The two parts of Russia are divided by the ...
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games ( Russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, romanized : XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 ( Russian: Сочи 2014 ), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Blocking YouTube, used by more than 50 million Russians every day, according to Mediascope, could have damaging implications for online freedom of speech, threaten Russia's general internet ...
Ozero. v. t. e. The Valdai speech of Vladimir Putin is a press-coined name for the speech that the Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered at the Valdai International Discussion Club XI session on 24 October 2014, in Sochi. Back on 20 February 2014, Russia began an annexation of Crimea using Russian troops disguised as local militia.
YouTube speeds on desktop computers in Russia may drop by around 40% this week and up to 70% the following week, a senior Russian lawmaker, close to the authorities, said on Thursday, part of a ...