Russia is the largest country in the world, stretching from eastern Europe to the Pacific. In Russia, Russian history, across Russia.
It is always capitalised. It covers about an eighth of the world's land and eleven time zones, and most of its population lives in the European western part. Moscow is the capital and St Petersburg the second city. It was the largest republic of the Soviet Union until that state ended in 1991. Note Russian, both the language and the people; and that Russia and the Soviet Union are not the same thing.
1nounrussiaThe largest country in the world, spanning Europe and Asia.
“Russia covers about eleven time zones.”
russia is a country.
non-oen
*roþs- — related to rowing
urj-fin-pro
*roocci
orv
Русь
Medieval Latin
Russia
New Latin
Russia
English
Russia
English, today
russia
Russia Borrowed from New Latin Russia. From Medieval Latin Russia, from orv Русь (whence Arabic رُوس and Medieval Greek Ῥῶς), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from urj-fin-pro roocci, from non-oen roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁reh₁- (“to row”). by surface analysis, Russ + -ia. c. a doublet of Rossiya.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA