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== History ==
The medieval polity of Kievan Rus' developed around Kyiv and other East Slavic centres. Later political authority shifted through several principalities, including Moscow, which became the centre of the expanding Russian state.

The Tsardom of Russia was proclaimed in 1547. The Russian Empire was established in 1721 and expanded across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia.

During the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire was a major European power. Russian forces intervened in several regional conflicts, including the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 alongside Austrian forces.<ref name="hungary-russian-forces"/>

The Russian Empire collapsed during the First World War and the revolutions of 1917. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest republic of the [[Soviet Union]], which was founded in 1922.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation became an independent state. Moscow remained the national capital and the centre of federal political authority.