What is "Russia" called now?

Question

Now that there is no more Russia, what do we call it? Are they individual countries now? Or is it one area that goes by a common name?

Thanks so much for the correct answers. I think I do recall that there is still a Russia, but there's no loger a USSR. Are the others states or countries though?

Answer 1

Russia is Russia. USSR is gone.

Answer 2

Russia (Russian: Росси́я, Rossiya; pronounced [rʌ'sʲi.jə]), also[1] the Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; [rʌ'sʲi.skə.jə fʲɪ.dʲɪ'ra.ʦɪ.jə], listen (help·info)), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia. With an area of 17,075,400 km2, Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada, and has the world's eighth-largest population. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from northwest to souhteast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It is also close to the United States and Japan across relatively small stretches of water (the Bering Strait and the La Pérouse Strait, respectively).

Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the dominant republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia has been an independent country since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. After the Soviet era, the area, population, and industrial production of the Soviet Union (then one of the world's two Cold War superpowers) that was located in Russia passed on to the Russian Federation.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia's global role was greatly diminished, although the nation still remains influential. Because Russia is considered the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic matters (see Russia's membership in the United Nations) it is one of five states with permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council and veto power. It is also one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and possesses the world's largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is also part of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the group of former Soviet republics, as well as Quartet and the G8.

In October 2005, the federal statistics agency reported that Russia's population has shrunk by more than half a million people dipping to 143 million, although Russia became the second-country in the world by the number of immigrants from abroad.

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Answer 3

Early in the 20th century, Russia "conquered" many countries and made them communist. This became the USSR. When the USSR disbanded in the late '80s, it became:

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia (where Stalin was born), Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Moldovia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and Estonia.

They are all countries independent of Russia.

Answer 4

Russia is called Russia now. It used to be the largest and dominate state in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). That union was sometimes erroneuosly called Russia but the name properly refers only to the pre-soviet, imperial Russia.

Answer 5

Its still Russia...we no longer call it the USSR. And yes, some of the country broke off and formed separate countries with their own names but Russia is still Russia.

Answer 6

Russia is called Russia, just as it always has been. It is the USSR that no longer exists. Russia was part of the USSR, and the biggest part, so we often referred to USSR as Russia.

I think the "proper" term for Russia is the Russian Federation.

Answer 7

Russia is now called The Russian Federation

Answer 8

Now Russia is called Russia. Previously it was USSR

Answer 9

Russia is still correct. IT is the USSR/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Soviet Union that is no longer in use. NOw they are back to their own state names: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan....etc. I think there are 12 or so in all, but can't necessarily name them off the top of my head.

Answer 10

Im not quite sure,I believe its still called Russia.
Below is a link to website with all the facts about Russia.

Answer 11

The USSR was broken into individual countries. For example, one of them is called Belarus.