Talk:Russia

Viktor Vasnetov

Sorry to interupt, but I couldn't help noticing that the painting of Ivan the Terrible is atributed to Ilya Repin, it is actually a painting made by Viktor Vasnetov

Request for comment

This is an open invitation for participating in the RFC about "does a largest cities template/city population template like Template:Largest cities of Russia, add value to the articles about nations (esp. featured ones)?". Comment on the page WP:RFC/City population templates. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! Mrt3366^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 07:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Folk instruments

Please add to the list of Russian folk instruments [domra] - this is a very popular Russian folk instrument, the precursor of the balalaika. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tronokostr (talk • contribs) 01:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Odd

Odd how this article fails to mention the defeats against Germany in Prussia, and instead makes it sound like the army was stabbed in the back. It also fails to mention the Polish-Soviet War, Holodomor/peasant starvation and anything like this. It describes Germany's "annexation" of the Ruhr, although this article is about neither, yet fails to mention the "Soviet Russia" invasion of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Who wrote this article, did Russia itself grow hands to type? --92.228.246.134 (talk) 00:18, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome to make specific suggestions for improvements to the article, along with reliable sources that can be linked to from any new text. HiLo48 (talk) 00:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 is already mentioned; removed the "annexation of Ruhr", added mention of the occupation of the Baltic states. Not sure how to add Polish-Soviet war and the WWI stuff, as the history section is already quite bloated. --illythr (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Further reading??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia#Further_reading is this part of the references?? It should be put into the references or external links or just be removed. Such things dont belong into countries articles they seem like advertisements.--Venajaguardian (talk) 16:03, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

 removed Regards.--Tomcat (7) 14:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Russian economy is under 17,000 (PPP per capita) everone knows World bank GDP calculations are bogus and crazy inflated.

Just look at all the other sources for GDP of Russia they are all around or under 2 trillion, over 3 trillion is a gross overestimation. People reading this will think Russia is almost as developed as western Europe while in reality its no where near as developed as even poorer EU countries such as Poland or Slovakia. Stop misleading readers and just look at ANY other non bias source. Like this other wiki page (on Russia's economy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.208.182 (talk) 06:55, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 8 January 2013

For future changes the term country should be replaced with nation, given the cultural and geographical vastness of nation states such as Russia, the term country does not correctly apply. 69.208.92.150 (talk) 16:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: "Future changes" cannot be applied now. In any case, I'm not at all clear that cultural and geographical vastness lends itself more to the word "nation". Feel free to discuss this further, but there's no need to make a formal edit request unless you're requesting a specific, immediate change. Rivertorch (talk) 22:43, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I am pretty sure "country" is a more appropriate term - it is ethnicity-neutral and tied to certain geographical borders. Nation, on the other hand, implies shared descent, culture, history. For instance, "nation-state" implies certain level of homogeneity among its residents. As you said, Russia's residents vary vastly in terms of both culture and ethnicities. The term "country" is more neutral and thus more inclusive.Cosainsé (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Russia Strategic Partners

EnglishGermanItalianArab like best friends Russian nation, a strategic partner Russia. USA Finland China Eastern European countries Hungary Czech Republic Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Baltics Ukraine Armenia Georgia post-Soviet states - Russofobia tough anywhere. Russofobia-Remained free only Islamic, Arab and African People's Peopl. Arabe's - brought Islam to curls Big bibleische nation today for a strategic Partnere Mosqua power elite. The us explain why Russia main politician's blokieren UN troops for Siria why she arabed cleavage city Brussels in Free City "Babilon - 5" with 40% of People islamique supported secretly, why Russia has not starred in Iraque Krig and Milliard's USD Iraq debt for Russia suspended in air, why could fight Al Qaeda 10 years against U.S. Armi brave, bin Laden fled about 18 years of all western and eastern intelligence agencies always managed on time, etc. United States (Gross domestic product 15,094's trillion USD) Operates approximately 8 Million's Israelites a la small strategic partner, Russia (Gross domestic product 1850's trillion USD) 336 Million's Arabe's a la great partner. Russians about 143 million's. But, with the help of Allah and Mosqua Poltiker's they make. Although, Arabe are often poor but know God's work - pouring blood, take away the life well. Jihad posted there and here, as in Quran - "WITH GOOD AND BLOOD". For the United Russia! Perhaps it is useful to increase a sentence in Article Russia. Adoptleads (talk) 14:54, 7 February 2013 (UTC)