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  2. European Russia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Russia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Georgia (country) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia is a mountainous country situated almost entirely in the South Caucasus, while some slivers of the country are situated north of the Caucasus Watershed in the North Caucasus. [ 166][ 167] The country lies between latitudes 41° and 44° N, and longitudes 40° and 47° E, with an area of 67,900 km 2 (26,216 sq mi).

  5. Gopnik - Wikipedia

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    A Russian gopnik squats in a stairwell in a khrushchyovka building (2016). A gopnik (Russian: гопник, romanized: gopnik, pronounced [ˈɡopnʲɪk]; Ukrainian: гопник, romanized: hopnyk; Belarusian: гопнік, romanized: hopnik) [1] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of ...

  6. Russian language - Wikipedia

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    Russian is a minority language. Russian [e] is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, [f] and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages.

  7. Regions of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The exact placement of the Caucasus has also varied since classical antiquity [3] and is now regarded by many as a distinct region within or partly in Europe. [4] Greenland is geographically a part of North America but has been politically and culturally associated with Northern Europe for more than a millennium. [5]

  8. Volksdeutsche - Wikipedia

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    Volksdeutsche of Łódź greeting German cavalry in 1939. Volksdeutsche meeting in occupied Warsaw, 1940. In Nazi German terminology, Volksdeutsche ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ) were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship." [1]

  9. Geography of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,192 km 2 (6,612,074 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations.