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| | Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Chernobyl, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Jekaterinburg , Samara, Omsk, ... |
 | | The republics, okrugs, and one autonomous region are ethnically based political units that are direct successors to ethnic units established during the Soviet period, with the exception of the republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia, which existed then as a single entity. |
 | | The region of Kiev was largely depopulated because of massacres and because much of the Russian population had fled west to escape the Mongol advance. |
 | | The region of Kiev, influenced by foreign languages and customs that were superimposed on the traditions of the old Rus, came to be called Ukraine. |
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