или вот ещё The Motherland is not only the past, not only the common historical destiny. It is, above all, real people living in a particular area and have a specific constitutional arrangements. Russia is the largest by area, population and economic power of the state of the Euro-Asian continent. It stretches over an area of 17 million square kilometers (17.4 million square km) and occupies a large part of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.