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I am a citizen of the Russian Federation or Russia. The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world. The country is situated in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia. Its total area is over 17 million square kilometres.
Our land is washed by twelve seas, most of which are seas of three oceans: the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific. In the south and in the west the country borders on eighteen countries.
There is hardly a country in the world where such a great variety of flora and fauna can be found as in our land. Our country has numerous forests, plains and steppes, taiga and tundra, highlands and deserts. The highest mountains in our land are the Altai, the Urals and the Caucasus. There are over two thousand rivers in the Russian Federation. The longest of them are the Volga, the Ob, the Yenisei, the Lena and the Amur. Our land is also rich in various lakes with the deepest lake in the world, the Baikal, included.
The climate conditions are rather different: from arctic and moderate to continental and subtropical. Our country is one of the richest in natural resources countries in the world: oil, natural gas, coal, different ores of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and other minerals.
The Russian Federation is a multinational state. It comprises many national districts, several autonomous republics and regions. The population of the country is over 143 mln. people.
Moscow is the capital of our Homeland. It is the largest political, scientific and cultural centre of the country and one of the most beautiful cities. Russian is the official language of the state. Our national symbols are a double headed eagle and a white-blue-red banner.
The Russian Federation is a constitutional republic headed by the President. The country government consists of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The President controls only the executive branch – the government, but not the Supreme Court and Federal Assembly.
The legislative power belongs to the Federal Assembly comprising two chambers: the Federation Council (upper Chamber) and the State Duma (lower Chamber). Each chamber is headed by the Speaker. The executive power belongs to the government (the Cabinet of Ministers) headed by the Prime Minister. The judicial power belongs to the system of Courts comprising the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and federal courts.
Our country has a multiparty system. The foreign policy of the Russian Federation is that of international cooperation, peace and friendship with all nations irrespective of their political and social systems.
I am proud of being a citizen of Russia.
Say it in English:
гражданин Российской Федерации; страна располагается; общая площадь (территория); омывается двенадцатью морями; граничит с восемнадцатью странами; едва ли есть страна; большое разнообразие флоры и фауны; самые высокие горы; Уральские горы; Кавказские горы; самое глубокое озеро; включая Байкал; одна из богатейших природными ресурсами стран; многонациональное государство; много национальных округов; несколько автономных республик и областей; население страны; столица нашей Родины; национальные символы; конституционная республика, возглавляемая Президентом; законодательная власть; включающее две палаты; исполнительная власть принадлежит; судебная власть; Конституционный Суд; Верховный Суд; федеральные суды; многопартийная система; внешняя политика России; международное сотрудничество; дружба со всеми народами; независимо от их социальной системы.
Answer the following questions:
1. Are you really proud of being a citizen of Russia?
2. Where is your country situated?
3. Why does the country possess such a great variety of flora and fauna?
4. What is Russia rich in?
5. What do you think of the country’s multinationality? Are you quite tolerant?
6. Do you have friends of any nationality different from yours? (the Kazakhs, the Kirghiz, the Georgians, the Armenians, the Bashkir, the Tatars, the Azerbaijani, the Chuvash, the Latvians, the Lithuanians, the Estonians, the Ukrainians, the Byelorussians, etc.).
7. Have you ever been to Moscow? What is worth seeing there?
8. Who is the head of the country now?
9. Does the President control the executive, legislative and judicial powers?
10. What does the executive power belong to?
11. Who is the head of the government?
12. What does the legislative power belong to?
13. What chambers does the Federal Assembly consist of?
14. Does the judicial power belong to the government?
15. Do you like Russia’s foreign policy?
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