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Russia today is one very large country. The capital is Moscow.

Parliament, the Federal Assembly, meets in Moscow.

The constitution of 1993 is the set of rules. The president is the head of state.

Russian is the language of the whole country. Many republics also use their own languages.

From 1922 to 1991 Russia was one part of the Soviet Union. The other countries that came out of that union are not Russia.

Ukraine is a different country. Belarus is a different country.

Crimea is in Ukraine. Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson are in Ukraine too.

Japan and Russia do not agree about the southern Kuril Islands.

In 2022 Russia's army went into Ukraine. Many families were hurt.

A person born in a town that is now in another country is named with the town then and the country now.

Kaliningrad is part of Russia. It is separate from the main land, between Poland and Lithuania.

Many children in Russia have family from other countries, or speak another language at home. They belong in today's Russia.