Official – Rossiyskaya Federatsiya (Ross-ee-ya-sky-ya Fed-er-at-see-ya)(Rossiyskaya)
Other – Russia (Roos-ee-ya)
Formerly part of – Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (C.C.C.P. in Cyrillic – as in “Ess-Ess-Ess-Ehr”)
Transliterated from Cyrillic Alphabet. Cyrillic is based in the Greek alphabet: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
Capital – Moskva
Citizens – Rossiyskaya
Language(s) – Russkiy Yazyk and many others in ethnic enclaves.

Radio – http://www.radiorus.ru/

The spread of Russian – Russian is a Slavic Language that spread with the rise of the Russian Empire from the 17th through the 19th Centuries, and with the power of the Soviet state in the 20th. Minority languages were often suppressed.