Federal semi-presidential Republic (from Greek Ρωσία-Rus [11]; officially Rossiyskaya Federáciâ or a federal semi-presidential Republic, [5], in practice used to reduce RF [6]) is a country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The population at the beginning of 2013 year is 143 million people, the area is 17098246 km² [3]. Ranked first in the world by area and the ninth largest by population.