Individual #Russia__Russian_Federation  a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
  instance of:  country
  part:  Karelia  Moscow  Astrakhan  Cherepovets  Grozny  Kaluga  Kursk  Siberia  Nizhnyi_Novgorod  Kazan  Leningrad  Murmansk  Nalchik  Novgorod  Perm  Saratov  Smolensk  Ufa  Volgograd  Novosibirsk  Chelyabinsk  Omsk  Vladivostok  Novaya_Zemlya  Kola_Peninsula  Amur_River  Dnieper_River  Don_River  Lake_Ilmen  Lake_Ladoga  Lake_Onega  Neva_River  Tien_Shan  Urals  Volga_River  Volkhov_River
  part of:  Eurasia
  member of:  Commonwealth_of_Independent_States__CIS  an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

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