You are confusing the concepts of Russia and the Russian Federation. The first written mention of the term "Russia" (Greek Ρωσία) dates back to the middle of the 10th century. It is found in the works of the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus "On ceremonies" and "On the administration of the empire" as the Greek name for Russia.
In the XV-XVI centuries, the Hellenized name "Rosiya" was assigned to that part of the Russian lands, which was united into a single state under the leadership of the Moscow principality. The state acquired the official status of the kingdom after the coronation procedure: the wedding of Ivan IV to the kingdom in 1547, after which the state began to be called the Russian kingdom. The modern spelling of the word - with two letters "C" - appeared in the middle of the 17th century and was finally consolidated under Peter I.
On December 26, 1991, the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration on the termination of the existence of the USSR, which put the final point in the Cold War. The Russian Federation was recognized as the successor state of the USSR in international legal relations and took its place in the UN Security Council
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