New regulations for visa-free travel between China and Russia

According to the latest news from the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in accordance with the relevant agreement between China and Russia on the mutual exemption of group travel visas, and after friendly consultations between China and Russia, China has announced that Chinese citizens can travel to Russia visa-free in groups.

The Russian Federation is composed of 85 equal federal subjects, also known as Russia. Its capital is Moscow. Its territory spans the Eurasian continent, with a total area of ??17.0982 million square kilometers. It borders 14 countries and has long national boundaries. 60,933 kilometers, of which the coastline is 38,807 kilometers long and the land boundary is 14,509 kilometers long. As of April 2023, Russia’s total population is approximately 146 million people. There are 194 ethnic groups in Russia, mainly Russians, most of whom are Russian. Believe in Orthodox Christianity and the official language is Russian.

From the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, a multi-ethnic feudal country gradually formed with the Grand Duchy of Moscow as the center. In 1547, Ivan IV changed the title of Grand Duke to Tsar. In 1721, Peter I changed the name of the country to the Russian Empire. In 1861, serfdom was abolished. In February 1917, the bourgeois revolution overthrew the autocratic system. On November 7, 1917, the October Revolution broke out and established the world's first socialist state power - the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Geographical environment

Russia spans the Eurasian continent. Its neighboring countries are Norway and Finland to the northwest, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus to the west, and Ukraine to the southwest. It has Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan to the south, China, Mongolia, and North Korea to the southeast, and Japan and the United States across the sea to the east.

Russia has a land area of ??17.0982 million square kilometers, spanning the Eurasian continent, with a maximum length of 9,000 kilometers from east to west and a maximum width of 4,000 kilometers from north to south. It is the most vast country in the world. Russia's national boundary is 60,933 kilometers long, of which the coastline is 38,807 kilometers long, bordering 12 seas in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans, its land boundary is 14,509 kilometers long, and 36% of its territory is within the Arctic Circle.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Russia