Russia

From Absit Omen Lexicon

Russia, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.

Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.

Language

Russia's 160 ethnic groups speak some 100 languages. According to the 2002 Census, 142.6 million people speak Russian, followed by Tatar with 5.3 million and Ukrainian with 1.8 million speakers. Russian is the only official state language, but the Constitution gives the individual republics the right to establish their own state languages in addition to Russian.

Magical Culture

Education

Koldovstoretz is a Russian School of Witchcraft and wizardry, though it is not unusual to hear of Western Russian children to attend Durmstrang.

Honorius Stilicho travelled to Russia to attend a duelling school in his twenties. It was run by an ex-Auror of the Russian Ministry of Magic and he enjoyed it immensely.

Ministry

Russia has it's own Ministry of magic, and magical courts of law.

Melanthe Grumman's father targeted by the Russian Ministry (perhaps condoned by the Ministries of other countries as well) and a group of pro muggle/halfblood activists for being, for the most part, the money bags for various dark arts operations. He provided money to Voldemort, Death Eaters and their projects to eliminate muggles or muggle supporters. These pro muggle/halfblood activists wanted to get rid of extreme purists and/or Dark Artists aligned with Voldemorte, the Death Eaters and their supporters.

It was their hope that they might cut off the Dark Lord's resources and Orfeo Grumman was seen as a threat primarily in the financial standpoint. But little did they know that they also managed to stop--albeit temporarily--the flow of illegal runespoor goods and supplies.

Creatures

Nogtails, Zmey and Pogrebin are native to Russia.

Quidditch

Russia have a national quidditch team. Petrova Porskoff, a Russian Chaser is the inventor of the Porskoff Ploy.


At Absit Omen

Tavin Poole travelled through Russia with his sister Gertrude Poole after graduating.


The Almasy Clan have a forest estate at Tyumen. Balfour Spectre visits in 1996. Ira Almasy warns him to leave.


"Behind him was the front of an immense house - almost ancient in its mahogany fixtures and lingering ashen scents. It was late in the evening; glowing lights emanated inside the large house but did little more than throw shadows at the roots of barren and lanky trees." Burnt the Fire of Thine Eyes

"A week later, staying at a whitewashed guesthouse near the Sergiev Posad and taking his morning coffee, Balfour would read in the local papers that there had been a house fire in Tyumen. There were no survivors." Burnt the Fire of Thine Eyes


The Cirqe De La Lune bought a circus tent in Russia and what was left of the circus joined them after the second wizarding war [1]

"After the war, Jean-Luc and his band of thieves settled in the forests just outside of Russia’s capital where they started to rebuild. Upon that revival came black and red tents as high as the treetops with rings of fire on the inside, and unimaginable routines brought to life. A rebirth rose first in the dark forests, but then took to the roads where the caravan continues to perform to this very day. "


Clinton Irving had a Russian penpal, and later moved out to live in Russia for some time before moving on to Tibet.


Although born in Sweden, Tyr Brunn grew up in St. Petersburg.


In January 2009, Melanthe Grumman writes to Ignan Storm from Tyen Manor, Krasnoyarsk City, Siberia.


Over the summer of 2009, Vladlena Savitskaya writes from Savitsky Dragon Sanctuary in the Chukotka Region to Teodosio Medici in advance of the Tetrawizard Tournament. Fulfilling Requirements. Meanwhile, from Serdtse Manor, Kamenny Ostrov, St. Petersburg, Fyetka Strelnikov writes to Louise Parker It's A Letter From A Broad! (Get It?)


On January 28, 2010, Johann Storm and Evangeline Kuester are sent to Russia to deal with the trial of British expatriate wizard, Snugglesworth who was charged with breeding Carnivorous Snaplark and sending it to Russia's favourite witch songstress, who had been ignoring his advances by owl and in person for the past five years. The trial is a disaster as Snugglesworth seems unhinged, and he is locked up in Russia for the indefinite future. Dog Russian, Deutsch & Shackles

Characters Born in Russia

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