Radio Rossii is the primary public radio station in Russia.

Vologda is a city in northwest Russia. It’s known for the Vologda Kremlin, whose landmark buildings include the 16th-century St. Sophia Cathedral and its gilded bell tower. Nearby, the Lace Museum traces the heritage of the craft. The World of Forgotten Things is a museum displaying vintage household objects. To the north, the huge Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery complex includes centuries-old wooden and stone churches.

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Russia, the world?s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It?s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum?s art collection.

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