How Is The Russian Federation The Other Super Power

Mankind has always aspired to be the largest, biggest, strongest, highest, essentially the best in everything. This is not untrue for the Russians who have had the largest country in the world for quite some time now. Russia covers one-sixth of the entire world’s land mass and has had a significant part in modern history. However, in order to understand why a country has become what it is now, one must look at its culture. A country’s culture not only reflects its citizens now but also its history and future.

Russia has many cultural characteristics that have shaped the country we know today. A nation 's culture can define its actions and make them more predictable as a state on the international level. Understanding a nation’s culture gives great insight into the motives and reasoning behind their aggression or acts of force. Factors such as geography, weather, political landscape, military, and key infrastructure provide a clear understanding of Russian culture and how it has shaped the nation over the past century.

In 2014, Russia captured the Crimea and Sevastopol, and unfurled tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine border. This is where the conflict flashed between pro-Russian separatists and the new government in Kiev. Russia's actions, including reported military aid for separatist troops, mark a serious major threat to generally accepted principles of world order, such as, sovereignty and

Russia has built a strong, but stagnating economy on several natural resources to include the refinery and export of natural gas and oil. According to the Jim Picht (2014) exportation of natural gas and oil to Eastern Europe account for 70 percent of Russia’s exports and 53 percent of the government’s revenue. Along with exporting oil to Eastern Europe, Russia also exports too many countries to include China and Belarus. Europe fueled majority by Russian supplied natural gas and oil, the dependency of Europe’s need for this natural resource is the reason Russia’s economy is so strong. In 2014, when Russia decided to invade the neighboring country of Ukraine has led Europe to begin searching for other suppliers of their natural resources. If Europe finds other countries to supply the natural resources

Approximately 9,400,000 or 6.5% are Muslim.These two religions take up the majority of the Russian population of 142,800,000. Mikhail Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader to even support religion. Though many Russians still claim no religion, the Russian Orthodox Church has the most influence, at times even enough influence to form a de facto alliance with the state. Other religions operate inside of Russia as well to include Pagans, Rodism, and Protestants that take up the majority of the remaining population. They just have to register with authorities and prove they have a long-standing presence in Russia. Buddhists, Islamic, & Jewish religions also practice in the country, but only in small

The article Russian/American Cultural Contrasts has given me a better understanding of the Russians. But the most important is their loyalty to “Mother Russia” through the preservation of the Russian language and culture, which I find to be fascinating. They take great pride in their cultural heritage and expect the Americans to admire it and not view them as different or judge them. As Dr. Willand mentioned in class Russians are very proud of their country, and accepts the fact that their lives are difficult and pride themselves of being able to flourish in harsh conditions that most of us could not. This article has given me a better sense of who the Russians are and why they do things and thinks in the way in which they do. One thing is

History Professor Steven G. Marks, from Clemson University, asserts Russia significantly influenced the world both politically and culturally, particularly between 1880 and 1980 in How Russia Shaped the Modern World. Regardless of Russia's inner turmoil, their detachment from Western values became an emblem of opposition for those who held animosity to the West. Another integral part of Russia's involvement in world history is the Western reaction to its impact a few decades ago. By creating and spreading concepts Russia shaped the twentieth century, taking this into consideration allows new insight on modern history. The chapters go into specific examples, in terms of politics how anarchism and modern terrorism, as adopted by those fighting

Other important ethnicities include Abkhazians, Chechens, Ingush, and Ossetians. Every ethnicity has a long-standing and complex set of grievances against each other in the region. But from a political geography perspective, every ethnicity in the Caucasus has the same aspiration, to carve out a sovereign nation-state. In Russia, Russian is spoken by more than 80 percent Russian people and is one of six official languages of the United Nations. Meanwhile in Chechnya, they speak a series of different Caucasian languages.

Russia is a vast country with a long history of pride and war. The climate, people and governments in Russia have seen immense changes over its time as country. Russia is substantially a large country and has the most borders with other countries than any other nation, fourteen in total on land and has sea borders with Japan and the United States.

For the next few months we may see a rise in the Russian Economy continue, but many economists believe this rise will be short-lived and should only be seen as a temporary trend. The scholars believe that the Russian population is steadily decreasing, and Russian businesses are seeing an inefficacy in their profit. Russian workers are beginning to grow frustrated with the sluggish production coming from the government. The Russian government is beginning to see that rise in oil prices already begin to diminish once again as workers in the Russian workers are beginning to go months without pay, and are beginning to lay down their tools and go on strike in conflict with the way Vladimir Putin has been handling international relations.

Russia has had an interesting upbringing in the pathway of becoming a powerful nation as it stands today. Russia’s roots started all the way back in the 8-9th century with the migrating slavic groups including the Huns, Samaritans, Turks, and the Persians. The Mongolians were the initial group of individuals that establish a very efficient form of authoritarian bureaucratic structure. The Mongolians were seen as a very radical and ruthless group of people due to the destruction of many

In 1991, the great social experiment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. The empire spanning almost five centuries, from the remnants of the Golden Horde to Stalin's "new Russia" (Hoskins, 1997) from Poland to the Pacific disappeared, leaving a political-sociological void that is only now moving towards resolution. Still the largest nation in the world (Shultz, 2000), Russia spans two continents, multiple time zones, and a land area that diminishes that of the United States. Although it no longer demonstrates the breadth of cultural conglomeration existing in the era of Soviet existence, the Russian Federation provides for an interesting cultural examination, and will be the basis of this paper.

The economy of Russia has changed from a central economy to a market-based economy because of their separation from the USSR. Most of the money in Russia belongs to government officials. Russia relies on commodity exports and this has damaged their economy. “The economy, which had averaged 7% growth during the 1998-2008 period as oil prices rose rapidly, has seen diminishing growth rates since then due to the exhaustion of Russia’s commodity-based growth model” ("The World Factbook: RUSSIA", 2017).

The report gives information about main macroeconomic models which were applied to Russian Federation and United Kingdom. It consists of three parts. First part is dedicated to the identification of macroeconomic models for Russia and UK. The second part is about main macroeconomic changes between 2005 and 2012 in Russia and UK. Finally, effects of increase in interest rate by Bank of England to Russia and UK were described in the third part of the report. Secondary online sources and macroeconomic books were used.

Despite making a recovery after the 1998 market crash, Russia remains weighted with numerous holdovers from the Communist era that keep its economy from taking advantage of free-market reforms. In short, Russia has not prospered under capitalism because it has not yet discovered it. In order to do so, the Russian government must engage in extensive reform in several key areas: improving the rule of law, creating stable monetary policy, and ending a policy of favoritism to particular businesses. Engaging in these reforms would lower the extremely high transaction costs of doing business legally, stimulating a wave of new investment and wealth creation within Russia, as well as encouraging