ISIS RUSSIARUSSIA A A POWERFUL AND POWERFUL AND MODERN NATION?MODERN NATION?

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Cross CurriculumProject-Based Learning

CONTENT 1)Introduction 2)Interviews I 3)Interviews II 3)Geographical features 4)Climate 5)History 6)Political 7)Administrative divisions 8) Military 9)Economic 10)Comparison 11)Conclusion 12)References

INTRODUCTIONReason

Russia is a famous country because of its military and economic successes. It is still progressing in the recent years. However, most of the secondary students do not understand Russia in detail when we interviewed them.

AimTherefore, we are going to introduce and analyze Russia in all aspects. Then conclude whether Russia is a powerful country or not.

INTERVIEW Do you think Russia is a powerful nation?

INTERVIEW What condition should a great nation have?

GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

Eastern EuropeNorthern AsiaThe largest country17,056,400 km²Longitudes: 19°E,169°WLatitudes: 41°,82°

CLIMATEMonth

Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Year

Record high(℃)

22.1 30.3 37.7 45.4 41.5 29.1 45.4

RecordLow(℃)

-71.2 -60.6 -28.9 -9.3 -25.3 -58.5 -71.2

Hottest month: July (45.4℃)Coolest month: January (-71.2℃)

HISTORY1980s→ the Soviet Union carried out reforms.

1991→ The Soviet Union disintegrated

24th August 1991→ Russia seperated from the Soviet Union. Russian Federation was established became a sovereign state.

POLITICAL Separation of powers

Federal government → Legislative → Judicial → Administrative

Legislative: Bicameral Federal AssemblyJudicial: Constitutional Court Supreme Court of Arbitration lower federal courtsAdministrative: 15 ministries

President was directly elected by people every 6 years

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

Divided into 8 federal districtsconsists of 81 administrative districts

2 federal municipalities 21 republic 46 states1 autonomous prefecture 4 autonomous regions 9 frontiers

MILITARY May 7, 1992

The Russian military was established.

Compose ofArmy, Navy, Air Force, air defense forces, strategic rocket forces, space forces and airborne military.

The number of nuclear bullets is 4732

ECONOMIC Since 1991 (The collapse of the Soviet Union),

Economic↓∵ Rapid liberalization reforms (Fail)∵ Second oil crisis∵ Financial crisis

Enormous natural resources (80%)--Oil --Natural gas--Metals--Timber

COMPARISON

VS

Russia Germany

Russia Germany

Total area 17,075,400 km2 357,021 km2

Population density 8.3/km2 229people/km2

Military reach to a peak during Soviet-era and become the world's best army

Purely defensive militaryhas the ninth-highest expenditure in the world

Political Federation and semi-presidential republic

a federal, parliamentary, representative democracy republic

Russia Germany

Economic the 10th largest economy in the world

the fifth largest economy in the world

Education a free education is given to all citizens

carry out a system ‘dual education’

GDP $16,736/capital city

$37,896/capital city

Geographical features

extending from Europe to the North Pacific Ocean

Central Europe, between the Netherlands and Poland

CONCLUSIONMilitary is excellentEconomic will progressPolitical is well planned

Powerful

REFERENCES Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

Google translatehttp://translate.google.com/

Yahoo photohttp://hk.image.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A8tUwJmu8bBPX1cAT4e0ygt.?p=russia&ei=utf-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp

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