1. IS RUSSIA A POWERFUL AND MODERN NATION? Group Leader: Yeung Ho Yin (22) Group Members: Chan Ngai Kiu (4) Ho Chun Kit (10) Sze Ho Nam (16) Mok Hoi Man (28) Wu Oi Sze (34) Cross Curriculum Project-Based Learning

2. C ONTENT 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

3. I NTRODUCTION Reason 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. Aim Therefore, we are going to introduce and analyze Russia in all aspects. Then conclude whether Russia is a powerful country or not.

4. I NTERVIEW Do you think Russia is a powerful nation?

5. I NTERVIEW What condition should a great nation have?

6. G EOGRAPHICAL FEATURES Eastern Europe Northern Asia The largest country 17,056,400 km² Longitudes: 19°E,169°W Latitudes: 41°,82°

7. C LIMATE MonthJanMarMayJulSepNovYear Record high( ℃ ) 22.130.337.745.441.529.145.4 Record Low( ℃ ) -71.2-60.6-28.9-9.3-25.3-58.5-71.2 Hottest month: July (45.4 ℃ ) Coolest month: January (-71.2 ℃ )

8. H ISTORY 1980s → 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.

9. P OLITICAL Separation of powers Federal government → Legislative → Judicial → Administrative Legislative : Bicameral Federal Assembly Judicial : Constitutional Court Supreme Court of Arbitration lower federal courts Administrative : 15 ministries President was directly elected by people every 6 years

10. A DMINISTRATIV E DIVISIONS Divided into 8 federal districts consists of 81 administrative districts 2 federal municipalities 21 republic 46 states 1 autonomous prefecture 4 autonomous regions 9 frontiers

11. M ILITARY May 7, 1992 The Russian military was established. Compose of Army, Navy, Air Force, air defense forces, strategic rocket forces, space forces and airborne military. The number of nuclear bullets is 4732

12. E CONOMIC 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

13. C OMPARISON VS Russia Germany

14. Russia Germany Total area17,075,400 km 2 357,021 km 2 Population density8.3/km 2 229people/km 2 Militaryreach to a peak during Soviet-era and become the world's best army Purely defensive military has the ninth-highest expenditure in the world PoliticalFederation and semi- presidential republic a federal, parliamentary, representative democracy republic

15. RussiaGermany Economicthe 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

16. C ONCLUSION Military is excellent Economic will progress Political is well planned Powerful

17. R EFERENCES Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Google translate http://translate.google.com/ http://translate.google.com/ Yahoo photo http://hk.image.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A8tUwJmu 8bBPX1cAT4e0ygt.?p=russia&ei=utf-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp http://hk.image.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A8tUwJmu 8bBPX1cAT4e0ygt.?p=russia&ei=utf-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp

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