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Russia dates back to Kievan Rus, which included much of the land North-West and Central Russia. At the turn of the XIII-XV centuries is born the Moscow Principality, which became the original core of the formation of the new state, whose territory by the beginning of the EIGHTEENTH century stretched from the Baltic sea to the Pacific ocean. In the middle of XIII century Russia was subjected to the Mongol invasion and almost 250 years fought for the overthrow of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. In the XVI-XVII centuries the Russian multinational state: it was composed of peoples of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia. During the XVII-XVIII centuries, the government has sought to regain land that once belonged to before gaining access to the Baltic sea and to secure their southern border. In 1654 there was a reunion of Ukraine with Russia. In 1721 Russia was proclaimed an Empire. Throughout the XVIII-XX centuries continued the expansion of its Empire: it included the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Baltic States, a considerable part of Poland, Finland, Central Asia. After the February revolution in 1917 Russia was proclaimed a Republic, and after the October revolution became a Soviet socialist Republic, a country of workers and peasants. During the years of Soviet power, Russia's borders have repeatedly changed in its composition included a new administrative-territorial unit, part of the territory was transferred to other republics. In December 1922, Russia in the Soviet Union. In 1990 adopted the Declaration on state sovereignty of Russia, was planned the course to democratic transformation, the serious socio-economic reforms. The events of August 1991 broke the process of forming a new Union of the relations between sovereign States, and on 8 December 1991 the USSR ceased to exist. Was formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, where in addition to Russia included the majority of the former Union republics. The implementation of the reforms in Russia in 1991-1993 was held in difficult circumstances strengthening of contradictions between the legislative and Executive power. In accordance with the decrees of the President of Russia in December 1993 elections to the Federal Assembly, and in December 1995 was elected the new composition of the Federation Council and the state Duma