Ivanovie

Ivanovian Federal Republic, Ivanovie (Russian: Ивановская Федеративная Республика, Ивановье, IPA: /ivaˈnovje̞/, ee-van-oh-vee-ay) is a sovereign state located in Polerus, Polenesia. The country covers over 503,572 square kilometres (194,430 sq mi), and it has a population of 42.5 million. The capital and largest city are Ivanovsk. IFR extends across two time zones (UTC+2/PTM, UTC+3). The member state of the Polenensian Union.

Ancient age
The area of Ivanovie began to be populated about 50-100 thousand years ago. By the 3 and partly 2 millennium BC. the heyday of the Neolithic in Ivanovie belongs to the emergence of primitive forms of cattle breeding and agriculture. Around 1400 BC on the territory of Ivanovie were formed Dolinian culture.

Middle age
Already by the ~8th century, several Slavic tribes were formed on the territory of modern Ivanovie. The tribes include Dolins, Svyatochs, Drevichs.

About the 700s, the first Ivanovian principal was formed. In 977, the christianization of Ivanovie took place by Eliminesia.

Present
On April 12, 1964, the Ivanovian Republic was transformed into the Ivanovian Federal Republic.

Relief
As mentioned earlier, Ivanovie is located in Polerus, Polenesia. The territory of the Ivanovian Federative Republic is 503,6 thousand square kilometers. The western part lies in surrounded mainly by low mountains, where the highest point of the country. The southern part, also quite hilly.

Climate
The country's climate is humid continental with warm summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters, determined by a mixture of maritime and continental influences. Summer throughout Ivanovie is long, warm, or hot, the average temperature in July is +20-27°C.

Flora and fauna
The nature of IFR's is quite diverse. Natural zoning is quite well expressed. Flora in Ivanovie has more than 27 thousand species of plants, and the fauna has about 50 thousand species of animals.

Natural disasters
Mainly in Ivanovie happens disasters weather and technogenic character. Earthquakes are rare. They usually happen in the west of the country and Renay archipelago.

Economy
The economy of Ivanovie is a developed, high-income free-market economy. The key economic sector is servicing. The largest industries are electronics, machinery, vehicles, metalworking products, forest industry, and chemicals. Ivanovie has timber and several mineral and freshwater resources. With respect to foreign trade, Ivanovie is highly integrated in the global economy, and international trade represents a quarter of the GDP. Trade with the Polenesian Union represents 60 percent of the country's total trade. The largest trade flows are with Parthesia, Spertolesia, Maksistanovie, Virtland, Rezesia, Ramolesia, and Uranesia. The trade policy is managed by the Polenesian Union, where Ivanovie has traditionally been among the free trade supporters. Currency of Ivanovie - Ivanovian Vants (Ƀ), Ivanovian Kvants (100 IK = 1 Ƀ) (1 Ƀ = 0,2 USD)

Infrastructure
Ivanovie has high-developed state roads. In the public transport is dominated. Polevskoy Airport is the main and largest international airport, it serves civil and governmental, scheduled and unscheduled domestic and international flights. Railways of Ivanovian Federative Republic provides railway transport services on national and international lines.

Industry
Although Ivanovie's GDP comes mainly from the tertiary (services) sector, the industrial sector also plays an important role within its economy. The main industry sectors are car manufacturing and electrical engineering. Large companies and employers with headquarters in Ivanovsk include IAC, Svyaz Telekom, Indigo Media, Vant Bank, Livebank, Lantana, Microsoft Ivanovie.

Culture
The Ivanovian culture is a Slavic culture with east- and west- Slavonic influence.

Music
The most popular Ivanovian artists usually perform pop, rock, rave, rap music.

Cinema
The first movie in the IFR was filming in 1897.

Cuisine
The Ivanovian cuisine is enough varied. It shares many similarities with the cuisines of its neighboring countries, and widely uses fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, flour, cereals, bread, and berries.

Languages
The official language is Russian. Polish is widely spoken in the western regions, and Ukrainian is used in some parts of the Northeast. Minority languages hold co-official status in the municipalities in which the size of the minority population meets the legal threshold of 10% in two consecutive censuses. The deaf community uses the Russian Sign Language.

Religion
The Ivanovian constitution guarantees freedom of religion. In 2018, 66.3% of Ivanovians identified themselves as Orthodox, 4.7% as Roman Catholics, 7.6% as others, 21.4% identified themselves as atheists or non-religious.

Education
Education in IFR is compulsory and starts at the age of six from the mandatory kindergarten (Russian: детский сад). At the age of seven, children start the first grade of primary school (Russian: начальная школа) lasting for eight years and finish with an exam.

Politics
The head of state in Ivanovie is a president elected by direct universal suffrage for a 4-year term. Most executive power rests with the head of government, the prime minister, who is usually the leader of the party or coalition that wins the majority in parliamentary elections and is appointed by the president. The executive body is the Government of the Ivanovian Federal Republic. The remainder of the cabinet is appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister.

The highest legislative body in Ivanovie is the 500-seat bicameral The National Assembly. Delegates are elected for a 5-year term based on proportional representation.

Ivanovie's highest judicial body is the Constitutional Court of Ivanovie (Конституционый суд), which rules on constitutional issues.

Administrative divisions
Ivanovie divided by divisions 8 krays (края), 3 federal cities (города федерального значения). Volosts, autonomies divided communes (коммуны), and federal cities like usual municipalities (общины) divided districts (район).

Civil defense
The civil defense in Ivanovie is managed by Ivanovie Emergency Committee (IEC) and its regional divisions. IEC is a subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Also, Ivanovie and some countries in Polenesia (Parthesia, Spertolesia, etc.) has a centralized emergency warning system owned by IEC.

Media
The country has a developed media industry and there is a relatively high level of freedom of speech. Most of the media have their own political alignment. Ivanovian hasn't TV and radio tax, broadcasters funded by government grants and advertising.

Television
Television in Ivanovie was introduced in 1930, but broadcasting was suspended in 1939 due to World War II. In 1945 broadcasting was restored. Later, the PAL analog television broadcasting standard was adopted. Nowadays, in Ivanovie are available 30 free-to-air channels, they are fully available on DVB-T.

Radio
Ivanovie was the first country where launch a radio station. In there are DAB+ broadcasting services.

Press

 * Ivanovskaya Zhizn
 * Aktsent
 * Delovaya gazeta
 * Vestnik

Websites

 * wcentre.iv
 * zhurnal.iv
 * spros.iv

Technology

 * In Ivanovie are mobile operators: Svyaz' Telekom, Blue, Vodafone, and others.
 * Ivanovian Plugs and Sockets are C and F.

Sport
The IFR hasn't a national sport, but in the country are popular sports: football and hockey.

Public holidays

 * January 1 — New Year's Day
 * January 6 — Christmas Eve
 * January 7 — Orthodox Christmas
 * February 14 — Valentine's Day
 * March 8 — International Women's Day
 * April 1 — Polenesian Anniversary Day
 * April 12 — Day of Ivanovie
 * March 30 - April 14 — Easter
 * May 8 — Day of Memory
 * July 19 — Constitution Day
 * December 31 — New Year's Eve

External link

 * IJen Вики