<span>Air is a very poor conductor of electricity and gets extremely hot when lightning passes through it. weirdly lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit , or 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.</span>
We can reject answers C) and D) :those are two famous cities in Russia, and cities would be too small to take up three-forths of Russia, the biggest country in the world.
Murmansk is also a city: in the North-West of Russia, in the Arctic Circle.
So the correct answer is: Siberia
The correct answer Having a shoreline makes shipment by sea possible, which is less expensive than over land
North African and Middle Eastern countries can't join the EU since they're not from Europe, and regarding security, it's all the same now since it's not the middle ages any more.