Russia has also had 43 Olympic medals stripped from its athletes due to doping violations, which is the most of any country, and nearly a third of the global total. See also Outline of Russia Notes Sources References Further reading Bartlett, Roger P. A history of Russia (2005) online Breslauer, George W. and Colton, Timothy J. 2017. Russia Beyond Putin (Daedalus) online Brown, Archie, ed. The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1982) online Florinsky, Michael T. ed. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961). Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (2021) excerpt Greene, by Samuel A. and Graeme B. Robertson. Putin v. the People: the Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale UP, 2019) excerpt Hosking, Geoffrey A. Russia and the Russians: a history (2011) online Kort, Michael. A Brief History of Russia (2008) online Lowe, Norman. Mastering Twentieth Century Russian History (2002) excerpt Millar, James R. ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vol 2003). online Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (9th ed. 2018) 9th edition 1993 online Rosefielde, Steven. Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy (2020) excerpt Service, Robert. A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century (Harvard UP, 3rd ed., 2009) excerpt Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2014) excerpt; 800 pp covering art, literature, music, film, media, crime, politics, business, and economics. Walker, Shauin. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts Of the Past (2018, Oxford UP) excerpt External links Government Official Russian governmental portal Chief of State and Cabinet Members General information Russia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Russia at UCB Libraries GovPubs Russia from the BBC News Russia at Encyclopædia Britannica Key Development Forecasts for Russia from International Futures Other Post-Soviet Problems from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives Federal republics Eastern European countries Countries in Europe Countries in Asia North Asian countries Northeast Asian countries BRICS nations G20 nations E7 nations Christian states Member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union Member states of the United Nations Russian-speaking countries and territories States and territories established in 1991 1991 establishments in Europe 1991 establishments in Asia Transcontinental countries Observer states of the Organisation