Hi, my mother is from Russia.
Good! officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a sovereign country in Eurasia.
How long has it been known as the Russian Federation?
Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in early 2014 and the peninsula, Ukrainian territory since 1954, is now administered as two Russian federal subject
So, Crimea was a part of Ukraine? 
sometimes incorrectly refered to as the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia
When did the USSR break up?
 officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (), abbreviated as the USSR (), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
Oh wow, tell me more.
priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, during the last two years of the existence of the USSR. The Russian Republic comprised sixteen smaller constituent units of autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. The capital of the Russian SFSR was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
The Crimean Peninsula was annexed by the Russian Federation in February–March 2014 and since then has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. The annexation from Ukraine followed a Russian military intervention in Crimea that took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine.
On 22–23 February 2014, Russian president Vladimir Putin convened an all-night meeting with security service chiefs to