Russia vs state

Russia and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Russia	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Russia (noun)	state (noun)
a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia	a politically organized body of people under a single government
a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

Russia (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.