Russia is very famous for its Diamonds.

From 2002 to 2005, the government bureaucracy increased by 17% - 10.9% in 2005 alone.

They would establish the region of Kievan Rus and set the stage for many wars and rivalry, and also be ancestors to the greatest and cruelest leaders that Russia has ever seen.

In the wake of the Partitions of Poland, Russia had acquired significant territories in the west, populated mainly by Orthodox people.

Russia is an incredibly large country and it expands over much of Eurasia.

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism are Russia’s traditional religions. Estimates of the number of believers range from 85–90% (all non-atheists) to 7–15% (all of the people who attend worship at least once a month). Estimates of believers widely fluctuate between sources, and some reports put the number of non-believers in Russia as high as 24–48% of the population.

The number of doctors in relation to the population is high by American standards, although medical care in Russia, even in major cities, is generally far below Western standards. The unraveling of the Soviet state in its last decades and the physical and psychological traumas of transition during the 1990s resulted in a steady decline in the health of the Russian people. Currently Russia faces a demographic crisis as births lag far behind deaths. While its population is aging, skyrocketing deaths of working-age males due to cardiovascular disease is a major cause of Russia's demographic woes. A rapid increase in HIV/AIDS infections and tuberculosis compounds the problem.

The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, was one of many products of the Cold War tension between the Soviet Union and the United States.