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| | Russia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com |
 | | It is bordered by Norway and Finland in the northwest; Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania in the west; Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; and Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and North Korea along the southern border. |
 | | In his last months as the head of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev dissolved the Communist Party and proposed the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which, when implemented, gave most of the Soviet Socialist Republics their independence, binding them together in a loose, primarily economic federation. |
 | | Russian Culture Timeline: Rise of Russia - Timeline: Russian Culture Part I: Rise of Russia by David Johnson 888 1036 1300 1411 1505 1655... |
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