Bloomberg Television published this video item, entitled “US Senate Returns Today” – below is their description.
Bloomberg’s Wendy Benjaminson and Nick Wadhams discuss the return of the US Senate after Labor Day. They also talk about North Korea’s Kim visit to Russia. Wendy and Nick speak with Annmarie Hordern and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power.”
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Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
