Russia

Short for Russia leather.

A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia,

the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas;

as an

country in 1991 upon the

of the Soviet Union, it is the

country

. Co-official

: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other

) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and

: Moscow.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very

, although more

Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several

of the USSR).

The Russian Empire; the

in Russia

from 1721 to 1917.

Kievan Rus; the

East Slavic state

in Kiev.

Any of several East Slavic

from Kievan Rus,

including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).