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Formal Name	Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya)
Capital	Moscow
Main Cities	Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgoro
Official Language	Russian
Currency	Russian Ruble (RUB)
Dialling Code	+7
Emergency number	112
Time Zone	Moscow - UTC+4 hours ( Note: Russia is divided into nine time zones)
Daylight Savings Time	No DST in 2013
Units of Measure	Metric system
Electricity	220 volts; frequency of 50 Hz. Plug types F and C
Government	Federation
Population	142,517,670 (July 2012 est.)
Climate	Extremely diverse; varies from humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north
Land Surface	16,377,742 sq Km
Coastline	37,653 Km
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