Russia

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Russia. Russia is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 6 contested areas are marked with hatching: Abkhazia, Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic, Kuril Is. (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Luhansk People's Republic (marked at minimum size, not to scale), South Ossetia (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 191 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 4.1°E to 153.5°W and 37.5°N to 85.5°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Abkhazia — status contested; see the list below.Crimea — status contested; see the list below.Donetsk People's Republic — status contested; see the list below.Kuril Is. — status contested; see the list below.Luhansk People's Republic — status contested; see the list below.South Ossetia — status contested; see the list below.

Russia is filled. The 60 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 6 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 3 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

191 parts of Russia in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

This frame is wide because the source attributes territory to Russia across about 202° of longitude. Nothing has been cropped to make the country look compact.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 61.5°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 4.1°E–153.5°W, 37.5°N–85.5°N.

Disputed areas involving Russia

6 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    7 sources from Russiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Interfax
    • Meduza
    • Novaya Gazeta (Moscow)
    • RT
    • TASS
    • The Moscow Times
    • Sputnik

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    27 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Moscow

    19°C / 65°FPartly cloudywind 11 km/h / 7 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Moscow, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:10 AM · sunset 6:34 PM12h 24m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    RUSuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vcited
    Capital
    Moscowuncited
    Official languages
    36 official languagesAbaza, Adyghe, Aghul, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Buryat, Chechen, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Erzya, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Khakas, Komi, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgian, Mari, Moksha, Nogai, Ossetian, Russian, Rutulian, Southern Altai, Tabasaran, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Yakut
    uncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    gov.ru ↗This link works without encryption only — your connection to it is not private.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Russia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 143,513,328 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 18 fewer an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    143,513,328 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    143,669,648 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 18 fewer an hour (-156,424 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    143,513,3282025
    GDP
    2,561,310,169,3592025
    GDP per capita
    17,5472025
    Life expectancy at birth
    73.4 years2024
    Exports
    18.2%2025
    Imports
    15.5%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in Catalan, English and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    33 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments · inscribed 1990
    2. Kizhi Pogost · inscribed 1990
    3. Kremlin and Red Square · inscribed 1990
    4. Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings · inscribed 1992
    5. Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands · inscribed 1992

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    6. White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal · inscribed 1992
    7. Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius · inscribed 1993
    8. Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye · inscribed 1994
    9. Virgin Komi Forests · inscribed 1995
    10. Lake Baikal · inscribed 1996
    11. Volcanoes of Kamchatka · inscribed 1996
    12. Golden Mountains of Altai · inscribed 1998
    13. Western Caucasus · inscribed 1999
    14. Qazan Kremlin · inscribed 2000
    15. Ferapontov Monastery · inscribed 2000
    16. Curonian Spit · inscribed 2000 · shared with Lithuania
    17. Central Sikhote-Alin · inscribed 2001
    18. Citadel, old town and fortifications of Derbent · inscribed 2003

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    19. Uvs Nuur Basin · inscribed 2003 · shared with Mongolia
    20. Zapovednik Wrangel Island · inscribed 2004
    21. Novodevichy Convent · inscribed 2004
    22. historical centre of Yaroslavl · inscribed 2005
    23. Struve Geodetic Arc · inscribed 2005 · shared with Belarus, Estonia and 7 more countries
    24. Putorana Plateau · inscribed 2010
    25. Lena Pillars · inscribed 2012
    26. Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora · inscribed 2013 · shared with Ukraine
    27. Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex · inscribed 2014
    28. Landscapes of Dauria · inscribed 2017 · shared with Mongolia
    29. Sviyazhsk Assumption Monastery · inscribed 2017
    30. Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture · inscribed 2019
    31. Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea · inscribed 2021
    32. Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University · inscribed 2023
    33. Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake · inscribed 2024
    34. Kapova Cave · inscribed 2025 · removed from the List

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO · 1 removed from the list is shown and not counted

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 01listed as: fire department
    • 02listed as: police
    • 03listed as: emergency medical services
    • 101listed as: fire department
    • 102listed as: police
    • 103listed as: emergency medical services
    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    RUB

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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