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January 13, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
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September 2, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
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January 22, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 18, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
September 29, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
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January 30, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
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February 7, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

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Section sizes

Section size for Russia (60 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	21,517	21,517
Etymology	7,790	7,790
History	42	112,263
Early history	15,405	15,405
Kievan Rus'	5,462	5,462
Grand Duchy of Moscow	4,292	4,292
Tsardom of Russia	6,766	6,766
Imperial Russia	6,729	13,008
Great power and development of society, sciences, and arts	2,782	2,782
Great liberal reforms and capitalism	2,483	2,483
Constitutional monarchy and World War	1,014	1,014
Revolution and civil war	8,646	8,646
Soviet Union	238	29,205
Command economy and Soviet society	3,286	3,286
Stalinism and modernization	2,981	2,981
World War II and United Nations	9,773	9,773
Superpower and Cold War	2,368	2,368
Khrushchev Thaw reforms and economic development	2,964	2,964
Period of developed socialism or Era of Stagnation	1,641	1,641
Perestroika, democratization and Russian sovereignty	5,954	5,954
Independent Russian Federation	182	29,437
Transition to a market economy and political crises	5,063	5,063
Modern liberal constitution, international cooperation and economic stabilization	4,587	4,587
Movement towards a modernized economy, political centralization and democratic backsliding	6,673	6,673
Invasion of Ukraine	12,932	12,932
Geography	11,900	22,869
Climate	4,649	4,649
Biodiversity	6,320	6,320
Government and politics	8,733	53,774
Political divisions	8,175	8,175
Foreign relations	14,985	14,985
Military	4,574	4,574
Human rights	10,380	10,380
Corruption	4,922	4,922
Law and crime	2,005	2,005
Economy	12,120	54,367
Transport and energy	15,236	15,236
Agriculture and fishery	4,809	4,809
Science and technology	9,617	15,833
Space exploration	6,216	6,216
Tourism	6,369	6,369
Demographics	9,837	38,946
Language	6,603	6,603
Religion	9,907	9,907
Education	5,014	5,014
Health	7,585	7,585
Culture	4,786	62,295
Holidays	5,499	5,499
Art and architecture	10,430	10,430
Music	5,054	5,054
Literature and philosophy	13,512	13,512
Cuisine	7,226	7,226
Mass media and cinema	7,195	7,195
Sports	8,593	8,593
See also	58	58
Notes	26	26
References	30	30
Sources	460	460
Further reading	3,310	3,310
External links	3,038	3,038
Total	380,743	380,743

On 21 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Russian Federation. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 14 August 2024

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Remove "under an authoritarian dictatorship" from the table. Russia is not a dictatorship and has a semi-presidential system. Higger1 (talk) 21:02, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The claims in the article about being a dictatorship are backed up with sources. A change like this needs both reliable sources and consensus. — BerryForPerpetuity (talk) 13:28, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see in the sources where it supports stating as fact that Russia is a dictatorship. Could someone provide quotes? What I saw in the sources might support something like "has been described as an authoritarian dictatorship in practice". ☺Coppertwig (talk) 18:14, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This source [1] says "considered authoritarian" and "formally democratic". ☺Coppertwig (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

7 sources in the article ..plus Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Moxy🍁 21:12, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a serious issue. Wikipedia is chosing to provide false data with objectives that seen different than just being an information source.

While you can define Russia as "under an authoritarian government", stating that is a "under an autoritharian dictatorship" is simply contrafactual. And it would be an important nuance between both statements.

A Dictatorship has institutions and laws securing the dictatorial government in place and providing legitimacy for the dictatorship. This does not happens in Russia because there´s no such dictatorship. The fact that de government employs some authoritarian measures does not turn it into a dictorship.

None of the sources quoted can "back up" the said statement. They are all societal studies with rather subjective about vague concepts such as "freedom" and none of them provide a single legal description on how Russia would objetively be a dictatorship. 2800:810:471:234B:C8A8:7E8B:5192:AC59 (talk) 20:45, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Russia

Wikipedia is mistaken in some of the concepts about Russia: "Federal semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian dictatorship" Russia is a democracy, and it is misleading the general population knowledge about its system... 2603:8001:E700:3B39:2CF2:B234:801F:18EC (talk) 00:58, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and Santa Clause lives there all cozy with Put ... :) Vsmith (talk) 12:26, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just call it Federal semi-presidential republic.

Calling it a dictatorship is a western propaganda. Undashing (talk) 02:38, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
read me. Moxy🍁 16:48, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update GDP statistics

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According to IMF October stats, Russia is the fourth-largest economy by PPP, not the sixth - that needs to updated in the lead and the infobox. The latter also needs update in the GDP (PPP) per capita rankings. Russia is 43th, not 60th. 45.118.63.51 (talk) 12:23, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Already done by another editor. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 16:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]