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RUS Russia 42nd most visited country the Russian Federation; Rossijskaja Federacija Includes the Kaliningrad Region

42nd MOST VISITED

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Visitor Statistics for Russia

5598 Members Visited Russia kiranwl (24 May 2013)   By_style (04 May 2013)   robm1987 (21 Apr 2013)   deepakp7 (23 Mar 2013)   deepakp7 (23 Mar 2013)   dar (19 Feb 2013)   ozmarc (18 Feb 2013)   volodius (30 Jan 2013)   ozmarc (28 Dec 2012)   gemz6 (15 Dec 2012)   76 Members in Russia volodius (Saint Petersburg)   IceBoss (Moscow)   thenuad (Sankt Petersburg)   LColonel (Moscow)   CyrilK (Moscow)   Roman (Tyumen’)   Kpoxa (Moscow)   383 Members from Russia Advokat174Rus   aiyouwe4d6   feermatty   pampinvoirm   volodius   hauhOsteowtaw   Valkuzo   spahcrearse   carpinteyroqms   spoislesk   16 Places in Russia with Members Moskva (49 members) Sankt-Peterburg (11 members) Samara (2 members) Yekaterinburg (2 members) Omsk (1 member) Lipetsk (1 member) Yegor’yevsk (1 member) Nizhniy Novgorod (1 member) Krasnodar (1 member) Vladivostok (1 member) Countries visited by members from Russia Ukraine (120 visitors) Germany (108 visitors) France (105 visitors) Italy (103 visitors) Spain (101 visitors) Turkey (93 visitors) Egypt (91 visitors) Czech Republic (84 visitors) Netherlands (79 visitors) Russia (77 visitors)

Travel Information for Russia

	Travel Advice for Russia Link to travel advice for Russia from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
	Travel Health Information for Russia Link to travel health information for Russia from NHS Scoltand.
	Entry Requirements for Russia Link to entry requirements for Russia for British Citizens from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. If you are not a British Citizen, you should check with the appropriate embassy or diplomatic mission.

About Russia

The defeat of the Russian Empire in World War I led to the seizure of power by the Communists and the formation of the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1924-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya.

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