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17 Mind-Blowing Facts About Russia

Mamta Badkar
Mar. 10, 2014


REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
A man with mannequins wearing masks similar to the ones used by members of the female punk band Pussy Riot, during the "March of Millions" protest rally in Moscow, on Sept. 15, 2012.

Russia has been all over the headlines recently.

Earlier this year, it was for the Sochi Winter Olympics. More recently, it's because President Vladimir Putin has been flexing his muscles again, this time in Ukraine.

As the world's eighth-largest economy, Russia can't be ignored.

The sheer scale of the country's pipelines, for instance, its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, or its population decline are mind-boggling.

We put together some key facts about Russia.

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Russia's pipelines could loop around Earth more than six times.


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Russia's pipelines, including condensate, gas, liquid petroleum gas, oil water, and refined products, are 259,913 kilometers long. The Earth, meanwhile, is 40,075 kilometers in circumference.

Source: The World Fact Book

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Russia's population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993. That's the equivalent of Massachusetts.


REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Russia's population was 141.9 million in 2010 and is projected to fall 10.7% to 126.6 million by 2050.

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

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Russia's natural gas reserves are equivalent to about 13.2 billion Olympic size swimming pools.


REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

At 1,163 trillion cubic feet, Russia has the world's second largest natural gas reserves. An Olympic-size swimming pool reportedly has a volume of 88,000 cubic feet.

Source: British Petroleum

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Russia has 87 billion barrels of proven oil reserves; enough to last it another 75 years.


REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Russia consumed about 3.2 million barrels of oil per day in 2012. At that pace it would take another 75 years to exhaust its reserves.

Source: British Petroleum

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Russia's homicide rate is twice as bad as America's.


REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Russia has a homicide rate of 9.7 per 100,000, compared with 4.7 per 100,000 in the U.S. Russia's total count of 13,826 is however lower than 14,612 in the U.S.

Source: UNODC

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Standing on the shore of Russia's Lake Karachay would give you 600 roentgens of radiation per hour, enough to kill a human.


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The lake is located in one of Russia's largest nuclear facilities, which was kept a secret until 1990. "The Techa river, which provided water to nearby villages, was so contaminated that up to 65 percent of locals fell ill with radiation sickness — which the doctors termed “special disease,” because as long as the facility was secret, they weren’t allowed to mention radiation in their diagnoses," writes Jess Zimmerman at the Grist.

Source: Grist

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Russians drink six times more tea per year than Americans.


REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

Russians drink 3.051 pounds of tea per person per year, compared with 0.503 pounds in the U.S.

Source: Euromonitor

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Fifty-six journalists have been killed in Russia since 1992, and 64% of those were murdered.


REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Protesters hold a portrait of Russian political journalist Oleg Kashin who was beaten into a coma by two men.

Russia is the fifth-deadliest place to be a journalist.

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists

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Hmm, bantog rang ilang gi-annex ang Crimea...

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