8. Open the brackets and put the verbs in the correct form.
a. The Russians (to be) a reading nation.
b. Moscow (to be) the capital of Russian Federation.
c. The longest rivers (to be) the Volga and the Ob.
d. Russia (to be) a parliamentary republic.
e. The government (to consist of) three brunches: legislative, executive
and judicial.
f. Russia (to border) on many countries such as Mongolia, China in
the south-east, Finland and Norway in the north-west and so on.
g. Peter I (to move) the capital of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
h. Kiev (to become the main centre of trade and political power.​