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| Population: | 140,702,096 |
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| Languages: | Russian, others |
| Large Cities: | Moscow (capital), Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg |
| Expected athletes: | 178 athletes (102 male, 76 female) |
| Location: | Europe |
Shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea...also close to the United States (Alaska) and Japan...largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the earth's land area...History began with the East Slavs who emerged between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD...Ivan the Terrible was the first to formally be declared tsar in 1547...Peter the Great founded the Russian empire in 1721...The Soviet Union was formed on December 30, 1922...The USSR officially dissolved 69 years later in December 1991.
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Total Medals
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| 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
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Olympic silver medallist Yevgeny Plushenko has been ruled out of the upcoming world figure skating championships on medical grounds, it was reported by RIA Novosti news agency Friday.
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Medal table
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| 1 |  | United States | 9 | 15 | 13 | 37 |
| 2 |  | Germany | 10 | 13 | 7 | 30 |
| 3 |  | Canada | 14 | 7 | 5 | 26 |
| 4 |  | Norway | 9 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 |  | Austria | 4 | 6 | 6 | 16 |
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Video Highlights
Italy's Giuliano Razzoli takes the gold medal in the men's slalom.
Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky and Denny Morrison win a tight race with the US.
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