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 | | Russia shares borders with the following countries (starting in the far northwest and working round counter-clockwise): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania (via the Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave), Poland (idem), Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. |
 | | Smaller bodies of water are part of the oceans; the Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea are part of the Arctic, whereas the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan belong to the Pacific Ocean. |
 | | The 1998 financial crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble, a debt default by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most of the population. |
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