Russia Russia The EU-Russia Common Spaces are four projected spheres of cooperation between the European Union and the Russian Federation. ...more on Wikipedia about "EU-Russia Common Spaces"
When letters are sent to Russia from abroad, they all first get sorted in regional departments of the Post of Russia, so one can write only the postal codes of such central regional department. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of postal codes in Russia"
The Russian Federation ( , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,200 km² (6,595,600 mi²), it is the largest country in the world (by land mass), covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada. It ranks eighth in the world in population. It shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from NW to SE): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (only through Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (only through Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It is also close to the United States, Canada, Armenia and Japan across stretches of water: the Diomede Islands (one controlled by Russia, the other by the United States) are just 3 km (1.9 mi) apart, and Kunashir Island (controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan) is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Hokkaido. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russia"
Shuttle trading is a term used for a Russian economic practice in which traders shuttle backwards and forwards across the country buying goods from cheap sources in Moscow, major port cities or outside Russia and selling them in the Russian interior. One of the main commodities traded in thsi way is cars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shuttle trading"
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated USSR ( ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik [SSSR]), more commonly known as the Soviet Union ( ; tr.: Sovetskiy Soyuz) was an officially socialist state founded in 1922, centered on Russia, and dissolved in 1991. From 1945 until its dissolution it was historically notable as one of the world's two superpowers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Soviet Union"
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (abbreviated UCSJ) is a collection of Jewish human rights organizations working in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are based in Washington DC, but are linked to other organizations such as the Moscow Helsinki Group and have offices in the countries in where they operate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Union of Councils for Soviet Jews"
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