Rusia

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Moscow's seven Stalinist skyscrapers — the so-called Seven Sisters built between 1947 and 1953 — still dominate the skyline with their wedding-cake silhouettes and spired towers, a deliberate architectural intimidation that Soviet planners designed to outscale any Western capital.

El idioma oficial es ruso, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Rusia se contacta mediante el código +7. Russians maintain a sharp distinction between public behaviour — reserved, formal, avoiding eye contact with strangers — and the intense warmth extended to those admitted to the domestic circle, a duality shaped by centuries of navigating surveillance and collective mistrust of institutions.

Rusia comparte sus fronteras con Ucrania, Georgia, Estonia, Kazajistán, Bielorrusia, Noruega, China, Finlandia y 6 países más. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+03:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Soviet and Russian ice hockey produced the Red Machine: between 1954 and 1991 the USSR won seven Olympic gold medals and dominated the World Championship, and the 1972 Summit Series against Canada — won by the Soviets in points terms — remains the sport's defining ideological confrontation.

Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water, reaches 1,642 metres deep, and hosts the nerpa — the world's only exclusively freshwater seal species — a geological relic so ancient that it functions as a separate evolutionary laboratory.