In accordance with Article 65 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation it consists of
1. The Russian Federation includes the following subjects of the Russian Federation:
the Republic of Adygeya (Adygeya), the Republic of Altai, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Buryatia, the Republic of Daghestan, the Republic of Ingushetia, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic, the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic, the Republic of Marii El, the Republic of Mordovia, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan), the Republic of Tuva, the Udmurtian Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, the Chechen Republic, the Chuvash Republic - Chuvashia;
the Altai Territory, the Krasnodar Territory, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Primorie Territory, the Stavropol Territory, the Khabarovsk Territory;
the Amur Region, the Archangel Region, the Astrakhan Region, the Belgorod Region, the Bryansk Region, the Vladimir Region, the Volgograd Region, the Vologda Region, the Voronezh Region, the Ivanovo Region, the Irkutsk Region, the Kaliningrad Region, the Kaluga Region, the Kamchatka Region, the Kemerovo Region, the Kirov Region, the Kostroma Region, the Kurgan Region, the Kursk Region, the Leningrad Region, the Lipetsk Region, the Magadan Region, the Moscow Region, the Murmansk Region, the Nizhni Novgorod Region, the Novgorod Region, the Novosibirsk Region, the Omsk Region, the Orenburg Region, the Orel Region, the Penza Region, the Perm Region, the Pskov Region, the Rostov Region, the Ryazan Region, the Samara Region, the Saratov Region, the Sakhalin Region, the Sverdlovsk Region, the Smolensk Region, the Tambov Region, the Tver Region, the Tomsk Region, the Tula Region, the Tyumen Region, the Ulyanovsk Region, the Chelyabinsk Region, the Chita Region, the Yaroslavl Region;
Moscow, St. Petersburg - cities of federal importance;
the Jewish Autonomous Region;
the Aginsk Buryat Autonomous Area, the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Area, the Koryak Autonomous Area, the Nenets Autonomous Area, the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Area, the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Area, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Ugra, the Chukotka Autonomous Area, the Evenki Autonomous Area, the Yamalo-Nents Autonomous Area.
All in all it consists of such such subjects as respublics, regions, autonomous areas and regions and cities of federal importance.
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The Russian Federation consists of 84 administrative units, including two federal cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Till the year 1991 it was called The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
No, it is called the Russian Federation. It had been referred to as the Soviet Union, or USSR, but never the "US."
The capital city of Russia is Moscow. This is the location of the Kremlin, which is home to the President of the Russian Federation. It is also the headquarters for many national government facilities.
The present day Russian Federation originated from Slavic Tribes and the first Slavic State had been founded in 882 under the name of Kievan Rus'. Ivan III the Great later United independent villages and cities of modern day Russia under one State and expelled the Tatars from his land. During this time the area which is now Russia was already referred to as Russia, but not officially. From then on it had always been called Russia. Immediately after the Russian Revolution, it was referred to as the Russian Republic, the Soviet Republic or the Russian Soviet Republic. A constitution was adopted in November 1917 with the formal name the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. It kept this name as one of the republics of the Soviet Union which was created in 1922. In 1937, it was renamed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was renamed the Russian Federation in 1991 after the break down of the Soviet Union.
The First Russian-Chechen war began in 1994 and ended in 1996 when Chechen rebels captured Grozny,the capital of Chechen republic.Chechens won the first war. Russian leaved the republic and for almost three years Chechnya was an independent state,although it wasn't recognized by the UN and the world community, except by Taliban ruled Afghanistan. But after three years a Chechen warlord Shamil Basave invaded Dagestan in 1999 what caused second Russian-Chechen war. Which is still going on.