Russia is the largest country in the world. It lies on a huge territory from the coast of the Pacific Ocean to the centre of Europe. This incredible county has almost any kind of weather - strong windy winters and hot summer days. Moscow is the capital of Russia and its largest city, more than 12 million people are living there. There a lot natural ressources at the northeast of Russia oil and gas are among them. Russia borders on with 16 independent states - Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ucraine, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan and the United States of America. The head of Russian Federation is the president (Vladimir Putin). Russia is Federative republic, mixed republic and "just' republic. There more than 160 nationalities in Russian so it could be called a "multinational" country.
There aren't exact information about previous flags. From beggining of 1920 and till the middle of 1980 year much has changed in design of flag of TASSR. In 1990 Tatarstan has ceased to be autonomous. So It was decided to take a temorary flag of Tatar community center. During the year, comission had been developing national symbols. The white moon and star adorn the flag, which is divided by a diagonal, combining shades of red and green colours. On the 29th of November,1991, by the decision of the Supreme Council, the flag became national symbol of Tatar Republic. It was a quite long way to set the present flag.
Russia is Federative republic, mixed republic and "just' republic. There more than 160 nationalities in Russian so it could be called a "multinational" country.