Gossoudarstvennyï gimn Rossiïskoï Federatsii

The Russian anthem was initially entitled "God Protect the Tsar", which received, in 1834, the assent of the Tsar Nicolas I. In 1918, the Bolsheviks in power abrogated it and replaced it with "International", a piece composed in 1871 by a French communist.

Later on, in 1943, during the Second World War, Joseph Stalin, wishing to give Soviet Russia a patriotic anthem, approved a piece composed by Aleksandr Vassilievitch Aleksandrov, and the wordings of the poet Sergueï Mikhalkov, since International was then reserved to international communism manifestations.
After 1990, when the wall between the free world and the countries situated behind the "iron curtain" fell, a patriotic song, "Patriotitcheskaïa Pesnya", was used during official ceremonies under President Boris Eltsine. In the year 2,000, President Vladimir Putin adopted "Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii", as the national anthem of the Russian Federation. 

Rossia — sviachtchennaïa nacha derjava,
Rossia — lioubimaïa nacha strana.
Mogoutchaïa volia, velikaïa slava —
Tvoïo dostoïan'é na vse vremena!

Pripev
Slavsia, Otietchestvo nache svobodnoïe,
Bratskikh narodov soïouz vekovoï,
Predkami dannaïa moudrost' narodnaïa!
Slavsia, strana! My gordimsia toboï!

Ot ioujnykh moreï do poliarnogo kraïa
Raskinoulis' nachi lesa i polia.
Odna ty na svete! Odna ty takaïa —
Khranimaïa Bogom rodnaïa zemlia!

Pripev
Chiroki prostor dlia metchty i dlya jizni
Gryadouchtchie nam otkryvaïout goda.
Nam silou daïot nacha vernost' Ottchizne.
Tak bylo, tak est' i tak boudiet vsegda !