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Meaning of russia

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Russia
      n 1: a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern
           Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other
           soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and
           others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991 [syn:
           {Soviet Union}, {Russia}, {Union of Soviet Socialist
           Republics}, {USSR}]
      2: formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR
         occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia [syn: {Soviet
         Russia}, {Russia}, {Russian Soviet Federated Socialist
         Republic}]
      3: a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created
         in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in
         the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and
         Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital;
         overthrown by revolution in 1917
      4: a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia;
         formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state [syn:
         {Russia}, {Russian Federation}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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