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is the largest country in the world, extending from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the East. is bordered on the west by Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine; on the south by the Black Sea, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mo ....

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.... Russia numbers 72.5 million. Industry is the country's leading employer, with about 30 percent. Agriculture takes13 percent of all, and construction has 12 percent. Only about 1 million people, 1.5%, are registered unemployed, but the unemployment rate is much higher. Thousands work with no pay or with very few hours. Russia was the main country in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR). The East European Plain is full of rolling lowlands. The eastern boundary of this region, the Urals, are old mountains that have eroded. The Urals do not go above 6,200 ft. The Caucasus Mountains form the southern border of the Russian plain. West Siberia is ....