Russia have been making a global statement, in a bid to assert itself as the true world power (of course it is), and not the United States, who are delusional. Despite it's history, and global influence and role especially in the world war, little is known about this great country. In a thread few days back, many misguided nairalanders, have trash talked mighty Russia, even saying it is poor in infrastructure and can't cater for it's citizens. A country that stands the sixth largest economy in the world in terms of PPP, should receive the due acknowledgement it deserves. In reality, Russia has by far greater military influence and is the actual world power. Let's clear the air, and talk about this great country, and silent the anti Russians.
1. Russia is the largest country in the world and bigger than Pluto.
It covers an area of 17 million square kilometers, of which Siberia makes up 77%. It stretches so far around the globe that Russia has 11 different time zones. Russia has a population of around 144 million people.

2. The name of Russia’s famous Red Square has nothing to do with communism
but comes from the word krasnyi which originally meant beautiful.

3. Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918
This calendar is 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar. As a result, the Russian Olympic Team arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympic Games held in London. The Russian Orthodox Church still uses the old Julian calendar.

4. Russia and the US are just 4km apart at the nearest point
This is the distance between two islands Little Diomede (United States) and Big Diomede (Russia) that lie in the middle of the Bering Strait, the channel between Russia and Alaska. In the middle of winter, an ice bridge forms between the two places but walking across it is illegal. Alaska itself was once part of Russia; the Russians sold it to the Americans for USD 7.2mn in 1867.

5. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space
when he orbited the earth in a 108-minute flight in 1961. In 1967 Russia also launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.

6. Two Russian cosmonauts have spent more time in space than any other person
Gennady Padalka broke the record in 2015 with a total of 879 days in space over five space flights, taking the record previously held by Sergei Krikalev with 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes over six space flights.

7. Russia is home to some 20 percent of the world’s trees, and one-fifth of the world’s freshwater is in Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, and situated north of the Mongolian border in south-eastern Siberia; the lakes stretches 644km (400 miles) and is around 1,637m (5,000ft) deep. Russia is also home to 640 billion trees; almost half of the country is forest. These last wild forests of Europe include vast swathes of Siberia, home to the endangered Siberian tiger.

8. The word tsar comes from the Latin word ‘caesar’.
The first Tsar or emperor of Russia, Ivan IV, better known now as Ivan the Terrible, was crowned in 1547. The last was Tsar Nicholas II who was executed in 1918.

9. The Russian Revolution wasn’t one but two revolutions.
In the 1917 February Revolution, there were violent demonstrations and riots in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) and a provisional government replaced Tsar Nicholas. The October Revolution (effectively a coup d’etat) in 1917 marked the beginning of Soviet Russia, when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks (from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning ‘majority’) took control. Following the revolution, Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital of the Russian Empire in 1918 after holding the title for more than 200 years.

10. A clock in St Petersburg marks the exact moment that Russia became communist.
The clock on the mantelpiece in the White Dining Room in the Hermitage Palace stopped at 2.10am on the night of 25 October 1917. this was when the provisional government, in power since the February revolution, were arrested by the Bolsheviks.

11. There are over 100 languages in Russia.
The official language is Russian and it’s the first and only language of just over 80 percent of the population. There are more than 100 minority languages, the main one being Tatar; 3% of the country speaks Tatar. Other minority languages include Bashir, Circassian, Chechen, Chuvash, Dolgang, German, Mordvin, and Ukrainian. Most people who speak a minority language also speak Russian.

12. Russia has domesticated a species of fox.
Russian scientists led by Geneticist Dmitry Belyaevat the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, showed that a species could be tamed by breeding on behaviour alone in just over 50 years. The domesticated Siberian foxes are friendly and trainable – and extremely expensive.

13. During the 45 years of the Cold War the Soviet Union and the USA never fought each other directly.
Instead, each side funded wars around the world, built up nuclear weapons (the arms race) and vied for supremacy in space. The Cold War ended in 1991 with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika reforms, the collapse of the USSR, and the founding of 15 independent republics.

14. Over 70 cats roam the 14 miles of marbled corridors of The Hermitage in St Petersburg
on the lookout for marauding mice. There were cats there since the time of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, who decreed the cats come to court in 1745. Today, three volunteers look after the cats. They even have their own kitchen and small hospital.

15. Russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world
with an estimated 7,700 warheads, it holds just under half of all the nuclear weapons in existence (the US has the second biggest store).

16. Russians scientists have brought back to life a plant that became extinct 32,000 years ago.
The fruit of a tiny arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, was stored away in the burrow of an arctic ground squirrel, and lay frozen hard in the Siberian tundra until a recent excavation. Scientists thawed cells from the placenta (the part of the fruit that produces seeds) and grew them into whole plants.

17. The radiation emanating from Russia’s Lake Karachay would kill you in an hour.
Lake Karachay, in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia, was a dumping ground for radioactive waste for years. It’s possibly the most polluted place on earth.

18. The world’s largest collection of squirrel-related items belongs to Russian Pavel Gerasimov.
He has over 1,100 items including a solid gold squirrel statuette.

19. Russians are the world’s fourth biggest lovers of alcohol, knocking back 15.1 litres per person a year
only Belarus, Moldova and Lithuania beat Russia. Vodka is the most popular drink (the word vodka come from voda, which means water), and beer (the second most popular) was only officially classed as an alcoholic drink in 2013. Up until then anything with less than 10 percent alcohol was considered a foodstuff.

20. Russian women live 12 years longer than Russian men.
The life expectancy for Russian men is 64.7 years and 76.57 years for Russian women (2015 estimate). Women also outnumber the men: there are around 10 million more women than men in Russia.

21. The famous Trans-Siberian railway is the longest single railway in the world.
running some 9,200km (5, 700 miles) from Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast in Asia. The trip non-stop takes 152 hours and 27 minutes.

22. Peter the Great wanted to westernize the Russian way of life so he imposed a beard tax in 1698.
He ordered all men with beards (except priests) to be clean shaven or pay a tax of 100 roubles. Those who paid were given a copper token bearing a beard and moustache and the words ‘the beard is a useless burden’.

23. More billionaires live in Moscow than any other city in the world after New York.
According to the Huran Global Rich List 2015, Russia has a total 93 billionaires (those valued with assets at more than USD 1,000,000,000), the fourth-largest number of billionaires in the world after the US, China and India. Many Russian billionaires saw their fortunes fall in the last couple of years due to a number of factors, not least the drop in global oil prices. Some rich Russians hire fake ambulances to ensure that other drivers let them get through Moscow’s terrible traffic jams.

24. The Volga is Europe’s longest river at 3,690km (2,293 miles) and has over 200 tributaries
all of which add up to a staggering 357,000km (221,800 miles).

25. The Russian village Oymyakon is the coldest village on earth.
The Siberian village of Oymyakon saw the temperature dip to -68 C on 6 February 1933. Only Antarctica is colder! It’s chilly elsewhere in Russia, too: the icicles hanging off some of the buildings in Moscow are so huge that people cordon off the sidewalks below to prevent the icicles from hitting pedestrians below.

26. A Russian peasant women holds the world record for giving birth
to 69 children. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, various contemporary accounts record that a Mrs Vassilyev (1707-–c.1782) gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven pairs of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Most of them did not survive infancy.

27. Revenue from oil production and exports makes up more than half of the federal budget revenue.
Russia is the world’s largest producer of crude oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas (after the US). The state-run gas monopoly Gazprom (GazovayaPromyshlennost) is the largest producer and exporter of natural gas in the world.

28. You can view Lenin’s body in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
After his death on 21 January 1924, Russian scientists carried out experimental embalming methods to preserve the body; they’ve been fine-tuning the procedures ever since. Scientists re-embalm Lenin’s body every other year.

29. Everyone was an atheist in the Soviet Union
but today around 15–20 percent of Russians say they are Russian Orthodox, 10–15 percent say they are Muslim and around 2 percent profess to other Christian denominations. The true figures are probably higher as there are still many non-practising believers, a throwback to the days of Soviet rule when adherents to a faith suffered discrimination and persecution.

30. Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach posed the world’s current, longest-standing maths problem in 1742.
No has ever been able to prove or disprove Goldbach’s Conjecture that ‘every even positive integer greater than three is the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) primes’. Answers on a postcard, please.
31. Most importantly, Russia has the highest nuclear might in the world, with a war head of over 7700. Delusional America, believes it has the strongest nuclear arsenal. Hence Russia is the world power. Long live the Republic of Russia, VIVA LA RASA! VIVA LA RUSSIA, VIVA EL SUENO!!
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Damn Niggarr

So what has these got to do with Nigerians?

Abi dem dey pay you to hype Russia?

Bellfun:
So what has these got to do with Nigerians?

Abi dem dey pay you to hype Russia?

Not really hype but clearing the hype for anti Russians. If the world is influenced by Russian state ideology, there would have been more peace, and all the immoralities and havoc posed by American state ideology would not have occurred.
Russia is my dream place to study and live

Population of Russia: 144million

Population of Nigeria: 200 million+

Compare the two counties on ideological level, financial level, technological level, one thing is sure... QUALITY OVER QUANTITY.

The russians have really contributed to the world.

Zhunnurayn:
Russia have been making a global statement, in a bid to assert itself as the true world power (of course it is), and not the United States, who are delusional. Despite it's history, and global influence and role especially in the world war, little is known about this great country. In a thread few days back, many misguided nairalanders, have trash talked mighty Russia, even saying it is poor in infrastructure and can't cater for it's citizens. A country that stands the sixth largest economy in the world in terms of PPP, should receive the due acknowledgement it deserves. In reality, Russia has by far greater military influence and is the actual world power. Let's clear the air, and talk about this great country, and silent the anti Russians.
1. Russia is the largest country in the world and bigger than Pluto.
It covers an area of 17 million square kilometers, of which Siberia makes up 77%. It stretches so far around the globe that Russia has 11 different time zones. Russia has a population of around 144 million people.

2. The name of Russia’s famous Red Square has nothing to do with communism
but comes from the word krasnyi which originally meant beautiful.

3. Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918
This calendar is 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar. As a result, the Russian Olympic Team arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympic Games held in London. The Russian Orthodox Church still uses the old Julian calendar.

4. Russia and the US are just 4km apart at the nearest point
This is the distance between two islands Little Diomede (United States) and Big Diomede (Russia) that lie in the middle of the Bering Strait, the channel between Russia and Alaska. In the middle of winter, an ice bridge forms between the two places but walking across it is illegal. Alaska itself was once part of Russia; the Russians sold it to the Americans for USD 7.2mn in 1867.

5. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space
when he orbited the earth in a 108-minute flight in 1961. In 1967 Russia also launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.

6. Two Russian cosmonauts have spent more time in space than any other person
Gennady Padalka broke the record in 2015 with a total of 879 days in space over five space flights, taking the record previously held by Sergei Krikalev with 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes over six space flights.

7. Russia is home to some 20 percent of the world’s trees, and one-fifth of the world’s freshwater is in Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, and situated north of the Mongolian border in south-eastern Siberia; the lakes stretches 644km (400 miles) and is around 1,637m (5,000ft) deep. Russia is also home to 640 billion trees; almost half of the country is forest. These last wild forests of Europe include vast swathes of Siberia, home to the endangered Siberian tiger.

8. The word tsar comes from the Latin word ‘caesar’.
The first Tsar or emperor of Russia, Ivan IV, better known now as Ivan the Terrible, was crowned in 1547. The last was Tsar Nicholas II who was executed in 1918.

9. The Russian Revolution wasn’t one but two revolutions.
In the 1917 February Revolution, there were violent demonstrations and riots in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) and a provisional government replaced Tsar Nicholas. The October Revolution (effectively a coup d’etat) in 1917 marked the beginning of Soviet Russia, when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks (from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning ‘majority’) took control. Following the revolution, Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital of the Russian Empire in 1918 after holding the title for more than 200 years.

10. A clock in St Petersburg marks the exact moment that Russia became communist.
The clock on the mantelpiece in the White Dining Room in the Hermitage Palace stopped at 2.10am on the night of 25 October 1917. this was when the provisional government, in power since the February revolution, were arrested by the Bolsheviks.

11. There are over 100 languages in Russia.
The official language is Russian and it’s the first and only language of just over 80 percent of the population. There are more than 100 minority languages, the main one being Tatar; 3% of the country speaks Tatar. Other minority languages include Bashir, Circassian, Chechen, Chuvash, Dolgang, German, Mordvin, and Ukrainian. Most people who speak a minority language also speak Russian.

12. Russia has domesticated a species of fox.
Russian scientists led by Geneticist Dmitry Belyaevat the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, showed that a species could be tamed by breeding on behaviour alone in just over 50 years. The domesticated Siberian foxes are friendly and trainable – and extremely expensive.

13. During the 45 years of the Cold War the Soviet Union and the USA never fought each other directly.
Instead, each side funded wars around the world, built up nuclear weapons (the arms race) and vied for supremacy in space. The Cold War ended in 1991 with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika reforms, the collapse of the USSR, and the founding of 15 independent republics.

14. Over 70 cats roam the 14 miles of marbled corridors of The Hermitage in St Petersburg
on the lookout for marauding mice. There were cats there since the time of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, who decreed the cats come to court in 1745. Today, three volunteers look after the cats. They even have their own kitchen and small hospital.

15. Russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world
with an estimated 7,700 warheads, it holds just under half of all the nuclear weapons in existence (the US has the second biggest store).

16. Russians scientists have brought back to life a plant that became extinct 32,000 years ago.
The fruit of a tiny arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, was stored away in the burrow of an arctic ground squirrel, and lay frozen hard in the Siberian tundra until a recent excavation. Scientists thawed cells from the placenta (the part of the fruit that produces seeds) and grew them into whole plants.

17. The radiation emanating from Russia’s Lake Karachay would kill you in an hour.
Lake Karachay, in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia, was a dumping ground for radioactive waste for years. It’s possibly the most polluted place on earth.

18. The world’s largest collection of squirrel-related items belongs to Russian Pavel Gerasimov.
He has over 1,100 items including a solid gold squirrel statuette.

19. Russians are the world’s fourth biggest lovers of alcohol, knocking back 15.1 litres per person a year
only Belarus, Moldova and Lithuania beat Russia. Vodka is the most popular drink (the word vodka come from voda, which means water), and beer (the second most popular) was only officially classed as an alcoholic drink in 2013. Up until then anything with less than 10 percent alcohol was considered a foodstuff.

20. Russian women live 12 years longer than Russian men.
The life expectancy for Russian men is 64.7 years and 76.57 years for Russian women (2015 estimate). Women also outnumber the men: there are around 10 million more women than men in Russia.

21. The famous Trans-Siberian railway is the longest single railway in the world.
running some 9,200km (5, 700 miles) from Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast in Asia. The trip non-stop takes 152 hours and 27 minutes.

22. Peter the Great wanted to westernize the Russian way of life so he imposed a beard tax in 1698.
He ordered all men with beards (except priests) to be clean shaven or pay a tax of 100 roubles. Those who paid were given a copper token bearing a beard and moustache and the words ‘the beard is a useless burden’.

23. More billionaires live in Moscow than any other city in the world after New York.
According to the Huran Global Rich List 2015, Russia has a total 93 billionaires (those valued with assets at more than USD 1,000,000,000), the fourth-largest number of billionaires in the world after the US, China and India. Many Russian billionaires saw their fortunes fall in the last couple of years due to a number of factors, not least the drop in global oil prices. Some rich Russians hire fake ambulances to ensure that other drivers let them get through Moscow’s terrible traffic jams.

24. The Volga is Europe’s longest river at 3,690km (2,293 miles) and has over 200 tributaries
all of which add up to a staggering 357,000km (221,800 miles).

25. The Russian village Oymyakon is the coldest village on earth.
The Siberian village of Oymyakon saw the temperature dip to -68 C on 6 February 1933. Only Antarctica is colder! It’s chilly elsewhere in Russia, too: the icicles hanging off some of the buildings in Moscow are so huge that people cordon off the sidewalks below to prevent the icicles from hitting pedestrians below.

26. A Russian peasant women holds the world record for giving birth
to 69 children. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, various contemporary accounts record that a Mrs Vassilyev (1707-–c.1782) gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven pairs of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Most of them did not survive infancy.

27. Revenue from oil production and exports makes up more than half of the federal budget revenue.
Russia is the world’s largest producer of crude oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas (after the US). The state-run gas monopoly Gazprom (GazovayaPromyshlennost) is the largest producer and exporter of natural gas in the world.

28. You can view Lenin’s body in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
After his death on 21 January 1924, Russian scientists carried out experimental embalming methods to preserve the body; they’ve been fine-tuning the procedures ever since. Scientists re-embalm Lenin’s body every other year.

29. Everyone was an atheist in the Soviet Union
but today around 15–20 percent of Russians say they are Russian Orthodox, 10–15 percent say they are Muslim and around 2 percent profess to other Christian denominations. The true figures are probably higher as there are still many non-practising believers, a throwback to the days of Soviet rule when adherents to a faith suffered discrimination and persecution.

30. Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach posed the world’s current, longest-standing maths probis not lem in 1742.
No has ever been able to prove or disprove Goldbach’s Conjecture that ‘every even positive integer greater than three is the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) primes’. Answers on a postcard, please.
31. Most importantly, Russia has the highest nuclear might in the world, with a war head of over 7700. Delusional America, believes it has the strongest nuclear arsenal. Hence Russia is the world power. Long live the Republic of Russia, VIVA LA RASA! VIVA LA RUSSIA, VIVA EL SUENO!!
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A country which cannot feed itself in a protracted conventional war is neither a supper power nor world power.

Russia has 7700 nuke war heads but you forgot to add that they are mostly obsolete. Part of which Ukraine turned over to them. Look mister the only serious threat the US is bothered about is China's rising military profile. Russian is no match she only consoles herself with the fact of Balance of terror or MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) in the event of a nuclear war. So in thermo nuclear warfare it is not just your stockpile but your ability to deliver in record time with precision. Russian lacks precision technology that is why they invest in Magathon nuclear bombs. A few years back they even lack the technology to launch missile from submarine below sea surface, something south Korea achieved recently. On space exploration, was Russia able to send men to the moon almost four decades after America did?

godliman:
Russia has 7700 nuke war heads but you forgot to add that they are mostly obsolete. Part of which Ukraine turned over to them. Look mister the only serious threat the US is bothered about is China's rising military profile. Russian is no match she only consoles herself with the fact of Balance of terror or MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) in the event of a nuclear war. So in thermo nuclear warfare it is not just your stockpile but your ability to deliver in record time with precision. Russian lacks precision technology that is why they invest in Magathon nuclear bombs. A few years back they even lack the technology to launch missile from submarine below sea surface, something south Korea achieved recently. On space exploration, was Russia able to send men to the moon almost four decades after America did?

First, they are not obsolete, but neutralized willingly as part of the global well being policy, even United States have done same to most of their own. The Russian nation possesses approximately 6,400 nuclear warheads that are active—the largest stockpile of active nuclear weapons in the world.More than half of the world's 14,000 nuclear weapons are owned by Russia.[5] Russia's predecessor state, the Soviet Union, reached a peak stockpile of about 45,000 nuclear warheads in 1986. Talking about delivery, Russia possesses the hypersonic unstoppable missiles which no other country has, they recently launched the top secret satellite killer, even the US has admitted Russia had moved ahead, and want to slow them with Sanctions and tagging it a threat to world Peace. China is only greater in economic aspect, but no match to the military might of Russia.

Idiko1:



A country which cannot feed itself in a protracted conventional war is neither a supper power nor world power.

With this you are referring to the situation of the world war where US supplied provisions.. but you didn't mention that Russia delivered and handled the Germans and most of their allies, single handedly. While US busied itself with weak Japan. Russia liberated the whole of eastern Europe and Asia, alone while US with it's allies never delivered as much Russia did.
You say it can feed itself, yet their Moscow has the highest number of billionaires after new York, it's the biggest producer of oil, wheat, cucumber etc. Despite their harsh weather. It's the 11th and 6th largest economy of the world in terms of GDP and ppp respectively.. so how come you say it can't feed itself??

You failed to acknowledge the source of your post. It's called plagiarism.