About Russia

The Russian Federation is a transcontinental state that extends for a quarter in Europe and for everything else in Asia. It is the largest state in the world and in 2021 had about 147.2 million inhabitants. Together with the People's Republic of China, it is the state with the largest number of neighboring countries and is traditionally divided between European Russia and Asian Russia.

It was one of the protagonists of the history of the 20th century, for its role in the Second World War and later for being one of the major powers involved in the so-called Cold War.

In the early 21st century, the economy had one of the highest growth rates in the world, with Russia being considered one of the five countries referred to by the acronym BRICS.

The Russian Federation is the first producer and second exporter of oil, as well as the first producer and exporter of natural gas whose distribution, It has required the construction of an imposing structure of pipelines and pipelines that thanks to the state-owned company Gazprom promotes supply to the main European and Asian partners.

The two main cities of tourist attraction are the capital Moscow, center of power with the headquarters of the Kremlin that has over 10 million inhabitants and Saint Petersburg.