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been the genius who kept two foolish nephews of the Prince of Wales, the Russian Czar and
German Kaiser, from entangling themselves with the depraved Habsburg Kaiser, in a war in
which all three of the latter would destroy their monarchies. Once Bismark had been
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- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- China
- Estonia
- Finland
- Georgia
- (Japan)
- Kazakhstan
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- Lithuania
- Mongolia
- North Korea
- Norway
- Poland
- Ukraine
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| Demographics |
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- Population: 140,702,096
- Life Expectancy: 65.94 years
- Literacy: 90.4%
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- Median Age: 38.3 years
- Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
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| History |
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- Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan (2/15/1989)
- Kursk Incident
- Third Rome
- Cold War
- Communism
- US Secretary of State Warren Christopher proposed to Boris Yeltsin
"partnership" with NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries October 23, 1993
- China Building SU-27 Fighters in Conjunction with Russian Military, in
China (1996)
- Russia agrees to work on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power station (3/1998)
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| Religion |
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- Christianity: Russian Orthodox Church
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