0_Apprentice
Hi, my mother is from Russia.
1_Wizard
Good! officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a sovereign country in Eurasia.
0_Apprentice
How long has it been known as the Russian Federation?
1_Wizard
Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in early 2014 and the peninsula, Ukrainian territory since 1954, is now administered as two Russian federal subject
0_Apprentice
So, Crimea was a part of Ukraine? 
1_Wizard
sometimes incorrectly refered to as the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia
0_Apprentice
When did the USSR break up?
1_Wizard
 officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (), abbreviated as the USSR (), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
0_Apprentice
Oh wow, tell me more.
1_Wizard
was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union 