Russian Trade Agreements: APEC, ASEAN, European Union, Andean Community, BRICS Countries, Black Sea Economic Cooperation;
Alcohol is a potential trouble in the Russian Federation; the vodka is part of the lifestyle of the population;
The chaotic
privatization
process creates the difficulty of establishing clear market rules;
The proliferation of pressure groups known as mafias is also
problematic;
Moscow is the capital and the largest city of the Russian Federation. Moscow is the political, economic, Foreign Trade, religious, financial, educational, and transport centre of the Russian Federation;
Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and North Korea;
Russia shares maritime borders with Japan and the United States;
Abolition of Slavery in Russia: 1861;
Russia has 1,000 largest cities (with 13 with more that one million people);
The largest Russian cities are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg;