Please Answer the following questions to the text. 2) Why do they try to learn in advance about entrance requirements and the degrees offered? 4) Why are they interested if a college or a university is a public institution or a private one? 5) Why do they try to get information about how large the school is? 6) Why do students seek the most respected universities?

Russia, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a sovereign state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. At 17,125,200 square kilometres, Russia is thelargest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is the world's ninth most populous country with over 144 million people at the end of 2015.
Russia has a developed, high-income market economy with enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas.