ответьте на вопросы, 1)what is the official name of our country? 2)how many republics are there in the republic of the russian federation? 3)who was the first russian president? 4)what is the highest law of the russian federation? 5)who is the russian president at the moment? who is its prime minister? 6)when did russia stop being a monarchy and become a republic? 7)what is its capital? what can you say about it? 8)can you name some other major cities of russia? 9)russia is the largest country in the world, isn't it? 10) where are the altai and the caucasus mountains situated? what other russian mountain chains do you know? 11) where are the rivers lena and ob situated? what other russian rivers do you know? 12) what are the names of the seas around our coasts? 13) what do you know about lake baikal?

1. Российская Федерация - Россия (по конституции) 

The Russian Federation - Russia is the official name of our country/homeland.

2. There are 21 republics in the  Russian Federation (Adygea, Altai, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North Ossetia-Alania, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Tuva (Tyva), Khakassia, Chechnya, Chuvashia)

3. Boris Yeltsin was the first Russian President.

4. The constitution is the highest law of Russia.

5. Vladimir Putin is the Russian President at the moment. 

The Prime Minister is  Dmitry Medvedev.

6. Russia stopped being a monarchy and became a republic in 1917.

7. Moscow is the capital of Russia. It's the biggest city of Russia.

8. St.Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Kazan, Omsk, Tomsk.

9. Yes, it is. Russia is the largest country in the world.

10. The Altai mountains are situated in Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together. The Caucasus mountains are situated in the south-west of Russia, next to the Black Sea.

11. The Lena is in the north-eastern part of Siberia. The Ob is situated in Western Siberia. There are many rivers in Russia. Their names are the Yenisei, The Volga, the Kama, the Amur, etc.

12. The country is washed by the Pacific and Artic oceans and by the Baltic, the Black and the Azov seas.

13. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest, purest, most ancient and most capacious freshwater lake. Lake Baikal alone contains over one fifth of the world's volume of fresh water.