Estonia 294 km, Finland 1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,485 km, Norway 167 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576 km Coastline: 37,653 km Country Code +7 |
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phone system![]() local calls dial number without prefix national calls national prefix 8 areacode do not delete 0 0-- + restnumber-- -- -- (always ? digits) example Hotel Baltschug Moscow 8 495 230 6500 International calls 8 - 00 example: calling from Russia to Phonebook of the World in France 8 00 33 I 422I IIII II rue des IIaIIes PARIS Ier Emergency ? Police ? Fire ? calling to Russia + 374 and 7 digits - (areacode) -- -- -- (number) | Rossiyskaya Federaciya Russian Federation Capital: Moscow divided in 49 Oblasts 2I Republics I0 Autonomous Okrugs 6 Krays 2 Federal Cities I Austonomous Oblast founded Aug 08 I99I succeeding the Soviet Union until I9I7 Russian Empire last Czar Nicolas 2 political: ![]() President Vladimir PUTIN (since Dec 3I I999) Kremlin head of Government: Prime Minister Government of Russia languages: Russian and over I00 regional languages economy: GNP $ I270 billion GNP/person $ 8.850 home to 0 out of the I00 home to 2 out of the 500 largest companies of the World currency: I Rubel = I00 Kopeken I $ = 30.47 Rubel (Jan 02) geography ![]() Elburus 5,633 m |
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is organised in the spirit of the inventors of the phone system: Phonebook of North America.com (+I) Phonebook of Africa.com (+2) Phonebook of Europe.com (+3 or +4 ) Phonebook of Latin America.com (+5) Phonebook of South Asia.com (+6) Phonebook of Russia.com (+7) Phonebook of North Asia.com (+8) Phonebook of the Middle/Far East.com (+9) |
Russia (former Soviet Union) has a one digit country code +7 this code is shared with Kasaksthan after the end of the Soviet Union some countries countries left the +7 "World Telecom Zone" and are no part of Europe (+3--) or the Middle East (+9--) country code |
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