[ivan_gammel]

Russia is bigger and has its own system of instant payments SBP, which has now completely substituted Visa, Mastercard etc and has some presence in 8-9 other countries (depending on whether you count Abkhazia as a country or not) with 50 foreign banks supporting it.

[throw-the-towel]

Russia is bigger in area but not in population.

[ivan_gammel]

Can’t argue with that, but I was replying to a comment about area specifically :)