noun
a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
• Syn: ↑Russia
• Members of this Region: ↑Foreign Intelligence Service, ↑Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, ↑SVR
• Instance Hyponyms: ↑Asian Russia
• Member Holonyms: ↑Commonwealth of Independent States, ↑CIS
• Part Holonyms: ↑Eurasia
• Part Meronyms:
↑Karelia, ↑Moscow, ↑capital of the Russian Federation, ↑Russian capital, ↑Astrakhan, ↑Cherepovets, ↑Chechnya, ↑Chechenia, ↑Chechen Republic, ↑Grozny, ↑Groznyy, ↑Kaluga, ↑Khabarovsk, ↑Kursk, ↑Siberia, ↑European Russia, ↑Nizhnyi Novgorod, ↑Nizhni Novgorod, ↑Gorki, ↑Gorky, ↑Gorkiy, ↑Kazan, ↑St. Petersburg, ↑Leningrad, ↑Peterburg, ↑Petrograd, ↑Saint Petersburg, ↑Murmansk, ↑Nalchik, ↑Novgorod, ↑Perm, ↑Molotov, ↑Rostov, ↑Rostov on Don, ↑Rostov na Donu, ↑Saratov, ↑Smolensk, ↑Ufa, ↑Volgograd, ↑Stalingrad, ↑Tsaritsyn, ↑Novosibirsk, ↑Chelyabinsk, ↑Omsk, ↑Vladivostok, ↑Novaya Zemlya, ↑Nova Zembla, ↑Kola Peninsula, ↑Amur, ↑Amur River, ↑Heilong Jiang, ↑Heilong, ↑Dnieper, ↑Dnieper River, ↑Don, ↑Don River, ↑Lake Ilmen, ↑Ilmen, ↑Lake Ladoga, ↑Ladoga, ↑Lake Onega, ↑Onega, ↑Neva, ↑Neva River, ↑Tien Shan, ↑Tyan Shan, ↑Urals, ↑Ural Mountains, ↑Vetluga, ↑Vetluga River, ↑Volga, ↑Volga River, ↑Volkhov, ↑Volkhov River
Useful english dictionary. 2012.