1.Russia has the same surface area as Pluto.
2.There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia every year. (Photo: Reuters)
3.Russia has nine million more women than men. (Photo: Reuters)
4.During
a 1995 visit to Washington, then-President Boris Yeltsin was found on
Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in
order to find pizza. (Photo: Reuters)
5.In
exchange for Pepsi products, Russia gave Pepsi 17 submarines, a
cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer in 1990. At the time, it was the
seventh largest submarine fleet in the world. (Photo: Reuters)
6.Russia
is suspected to have at least 15 “closed cities.” These “closed cities”
are officially classified by the government, with their names and
locations unknown, they do not appear on road maps or signs and
foreigners are strictly prohibited from visiting them. (Via
commons.wikimedia.org / Ecodefense, Heinrich Boell Stiftung Russia, Alla
Slapovskaya, Alisa Nikulina)
7.Bears in Russia are addicted to jet fuel, and sniff it to get high and pass out. (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)
8.The
USSR built, and Russia still maintains, a doomsday device capable of
bypassing all standard protocols to launch their entire nuclear arsenal.
(Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)
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