Is Russia in Asia or Europe?
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The territory of Russia that is west of the Ural Mountains is Europe, the territory to the east is Asia.
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There are lots of countries in Asia.\n\nJapan-Junichiro Koizumi\nS. Korea-Roh Moo Hun
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It is a country located in Eastern Europe
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For starters, and this is an incomplete answer, but the Eurocentric perspective does not see Europe as a western peninsula of Asia, but actually as its own continent.  Europe is it's own continent according to the Eurocentric perspective.  \n\nBasing its world-view on Platonic essentialism, there is something "European" about Europe and its peoples, animals, climate, etc, so that there must be something "Asian" about Asia's people, animals, climate, etc.\n\nActually, it's all pretty much the same.  Europeans are really Asians, but at around 1450, they were the most backwards region of the planet--they were the furthest from the great Asian empires of the time.  So they had to rally around their religion, Christianity, and become "superior" by virtue of their belief in Christ.\n\nLater, they believed themselves superior because of their race, intellect, rationality, peaceful nature--all the stuff that makes them see themselves as the pinnacle of humanity.\n\nAsians see Europeans as pink, hairy barbarians.  OK, maybe I'm overgeneralizing a bit, but Asians see themselves as a more ancient people, and not really "asians" at all.  There are Chinese, Koreans, Thai, Indians, Sikh, Japanese, Khmer, Pilipino (no "h"), Samoan, etc., each with a vast (if untold) history.  Each radically different from each other as German is to French, but still having religious and cultural roots.\n\nSo, where did the term come from?  From Europeans, of course.\nIn the Platonic world view, rocks are rocks because of their "rockness."  In the Socratic worldview, rocks are rocks because of their relationship to papers and scissors, for example, because of their connections to other things.\n\nNot all rocks are the same or course.  Diamonds are much more expensive compared to ordinary pebbles, but not because of their "diamondness," (the Platonic/essentialist view) but rather because it's related to market demand, war in the Congo, sellers and resellers each trying to make a buck, TV commercials, weddings and so on (the Socratic-Hegelian/dialectical worldview).\n\nSo it goes that Asians are Asians, but this really doesn't make us understand Asians, but makes an easy definition to "Europeans" and around 1450 and the coming rise of Europe, the Europeans needed to figure things out the quick and easy way.  They were going from bottom of the barrel in civilization, to masters of the universe, for good and bad.\n\nSo if you see the world from an essentialist perspective, then Europe (or Asia) is the center of the world, and everything else revolves around it.  If you see the world from the dialectical perspective, then you see the world as related to each other.  Europe would not be Europe without Asia, and vice-versa.  Each needs the other, the way diamonds need middlemen to become valuable.\n\nWhen it comes to economic integration, IJapan, India and China, to a certain degree are fostering cooperation over competition, because of the need to compete with Europe over markets and create new markets.  In other words, if India and China do good with each other, Chinese people will buy Indian products rather than European products.  This fosters an Asia-first perspective.\n\nTo read more--a tough but good read, read "The Myth of Continents" by Martin W. Lewis and Karen Wigen.
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Northeast Eurasia... Russia, China, Mongolia, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Kazakhstan...
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You are right. It can be an extension of Asia because there is no real delineation between Asia and Europe, like Africa, Americas and Australia. We can as well call it Eurasia. Whaddya say?
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i think it's russian or ukrainian, somewhere around that part of the world.
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it is a country in eastern europe to the north of blacksea.Ukrainian and russian is spoke there.kiev is the capital.
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Alaska.  But some crazy Russians would tell you it is theirs.
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Its so big like a conitnent but its not a continent. Asia is continent and its part of Asia so we call it sub continent.
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Well,not Europe for sure..Southwest Asia.
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Russia and Turkey both qualify.
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muslims live thorughout most of Russia.\nChechnya (Republic of Ichkeria) is a muslim region, however they do not only live there. \nTo the person above, pleaser study facts before you state things.
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which country ru talking about?
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Southwestern Asia. Borders Turkey, Black Sea and Russia I believe.
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Russia. Or look on a map and find the longest contry from east 2 west.
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Russia is a country that's become pretty notorious, unfortunately. Amnesty International recently put out a report claiming attacks on minorities on almost a weekly basis in major cities (St. Petersburg). As much as I liked Russia when I lived there 10 years ago (in St. Petersburg), the racist (and sexist) sentiment was pretty offensive, even though it wasn't directed toward me (white male of Western European origin). No one's expected to speak up about racism, so few do.