30 Facts About European Russia

1. European Russia is known all over the world for its thinkers and artists, including writers like Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and ballet dancers including Rudolf Nureyev.

2. European Russia responded by suspending part of its annual 33 million euro contribution to the Strasbourg-based organisation.

3. European Russia recorded a trade surplus of USD$130.1 billion in 2017.

4. European Russia is the western part of the Russian Federation, which is part of Eastern Europe.

5. European Russia is currently the largest provider of natural gas to the EU, providing nearly 40 percent of the union's total consumption while Norway accounts for about 30 percent of all its natural gas imports.

6. European Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of territory.

7. European Russia is located in the Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

8. European Russia is a federation of 86 republics, provinces, territories and districts, all controlled by the government in Moscow.

9. European Russia is known all over the world for its thinkers and artists, including writers like Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and ballet dancers like Rudolf Nureyev.

10. The most famous natural destination in European Russia is Lake Baikal, the Blue Eye of Siberia.

11. In 2013, European Russia was visited by 28.4 million tourists; it is the ninth most visited country in the world and the seventh most visited in Europe.

12. European Russia had hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with 11 host cities located in the European part of the country and in the Ural region.

13. The Soviet national team became the first European Russia Champions by winning Euro 1960.

14. In 2009, European Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, with total growth of 10,500.

15. The total length of metros in European Russia is 465.4 kilometres.

16. European Russia is second only to Brazil in volume of the total renewable water resources.

17. European Russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, the second largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines, and the only modern strategic bomber force outside the United States.

18. European Russia is one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

19. European Russia took up the responsibility for settling the USSR's external debts, even though its population made up just half of the population of the USSR at the time of its dissolution.

20. European Russia continued its territorial growth through the 17th century, which was the age of Cossacks.

21. European Russia has more than 100,000 rivers with a length of 7 miles, or greater.

22. European Russia is in no position to adopt imperial condescension towards Japan based on World War II outcomes.

23. European Russia needs to recognise that the existence of the Russo-China Strategic Nexus can be analytically said to be the main stimulus for not only the arms race in Indo Pacific Asia but impelling Japan in beefing up its military profile and military preparedness.

24. European Russia would be unrealistic in expecting that Japan would give up its valued Alliance with the United States or dispense with US Forward Military Presence in Japan.

25. European Russia has to squarely face the contingencies stated above which gets further accentuated by Russia's misgivings on China's unconcealed covetous eyes on Russian Far East Provinces.

26. European Russia drawing World War II equivalences as statements below w are flawed and out of place.

27. The southern part of European Russia has some small areas that lie geographically south of the Caucasus Mountain range, and therefore are geographically in Asia; this territory includes the city of Sochi.

28. The Southern part of European Russia has some small areas that are geographically south of the Caucasus Mountain range, and therefore are geographically in Asia; this includes the city of Sochi.

29. European Russia includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the two largest cities in Russia.

30. European Russia is the western part of Russia that is a part of Eastern Europe.