Russia

§1. Russia Introduction

Background:
  The defeat of the Russian Empire in World War I led to the seizure of power
  by the communists and the formation of the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef
  STALIN (1924-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a
  cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated
  in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV
  (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in
  an attempt to modernize communism, but his initiatives inadvertently
  released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15
  independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to
  build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the
  strict social, political, and economic controls of the communist period.

§2. Russia Geography

Location:
  Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is sometimes included with
  Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific
  Ocean

Geographic coordinates:
  60 00 N, 100 00 E

Map references:
  Asia

Area:
  total: 17,075,200 kmē
  land: 16,995,800 kmē
  water: 79,400 kmē

Area - comparative:
  slightly less than 1.8 times the size of the US

Land boundaries:
  total: 19,961 km border countries: Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km, China
    (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 294 km, Finland 1,313
    km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217
    km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,485 km, Norway 167
    km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576 km

Coastline:
  37,653 km

Maritime claims:
  continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
  exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
  territorial sea: 12 NM

Climate:
  ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of
  European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north;
  winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers
  vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast

Terrain:
  broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra
  in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions

Elevation extremes:
  lowest point: Caspian Sea -28 m highest point: Gora El'brus 5,633 m

Natural resources:
  wide natural resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas,
  coal, and many strategic minerals, timber
  note: formidable obstacles of climate, terrain, and distance hinder
    exploitation of natural resources

Land use:
  arable land: 8%
  permanent crops: 0%
  permanent pastures: 4%
  forests and woodland: 46%
  other: 42% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land:
  40,000 kmē (1993 est.)

Natural hazards:
  permafrost over much of Siberia is a major impediment to development;
  volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands; volcanoes and earthquakes on the
  Kamchatka Peninsula

Environment - current issues:
  air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal-fired electric plants,
  and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural
  pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion;
  soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals;
  scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground
  water contamination from toxic waste

Environment - international agreements:
  party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air
    Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine
    Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity,
    Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous
    Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer
    Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling
  signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Climate Change-Kyoto
    Protocol

Geography - note:
  largest country in the world in terms of area but unfavorably located in
  relation to major sea lanes of the world; despite its size, much of the
  country lacks proper soils and climates (either too cold or too dry) for
  agriculture

§3. Russia People

Population:
  145,470,197 (July 2001 est.)

Age structure:
  0-14 years: 17.41% (male 12,915,026; female 12,405,341)
  15-64 years: 69.78% (male 49,183,000; female 52,320,962)
  65 years and over: 12.81% (male 5,941,944; female 12,703,924) (2001 est.)

Population growth rate:
  -0.35% (2001 est.)

Birth rate:
  9.35 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Death rate:
  13.85 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Net migration rate:
  0.98 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Sex ratio:
  at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
  under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
  15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female
  65 years and over: 0.47 male(s)/female
  total population: 0.88 male(s)/female (2001 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
  20.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
  total population: 67.34 years male: 62.12 years
  female: 72.83 years (2001 est.)

Total fertility rate:
  1.27 children born/woman (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
  0.18% (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
  130,000 (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
  850 (1999 est.)

Nationality:
  noun: Russian(s)
  adjective: Russian

Ethnic groups:
  Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%,
  Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%

Religions:
  Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other

Languages:
  Russian, other

Literacy:
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 98%
  male: 100%
  female: 97% (1989 est.)

§4. Russia Government

Country name:
  conventional long form: Russian Federation
  conventional short form: Russia
  local long form: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
  local short form: Rossiya
  former: Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Government type:
  federation

Capital:
  Moscow

Administrative divisions:
  49 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics* (respublik,
  singular - respublika), 10 autonomous okrugs**(avtonomnykh okrugov,
  singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 6 krays*** (krayev, singular - kray), 2
  federal cities (singular - gorod)****, and 1 autonomous
  oblast*****(avtonomnaya oblast'); Adygeya (Maykop)*, Aginskiy Buryatskiy
  (Aginskoye)**, Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)*, Altayskiy (Barnaul)***, Amurskaya
  (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'skaya, Astrakhanskaya, Bashkortostan (Ufa)*,
  Belgorodskaya, Bryanskaya, Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)*, Chechnya (Groznyy)*,
  Chelyabinskaya, Chitinskaya, Chukotskiy (Anadyr')**, Chuvashiya
  (Cheboksary)*, Dagestan (Makhachkala)*, Evenkiyskiy (Tura)**, Ingushetiya
  (Nazran')*, Irkutskaya, Ivanovskaya, Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)*,
  Kaliningradskaya, Kalmykiya (Elista)*, Kaluzhskaya, Kamchatskaya
  (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)*, Kareliya
  (Petrozavodsk)*, Kemerovskaya, Khabarovskiy***, Khakasiya (Abakan)*,
  Khanty-Mansiyskiy (Khanty-Mansiysk)**, Kirovskaya, Komi (Syktyvkar)*,
  Koryakskiy (Palana)**, Kostromskaya, Krasnodarskiy***, Krasnoyarskiy***,
  Kurganskaya, Kurskaya, Leningradskaya, Lipetskaya, Magadanskaya, Mariy-El
  (Yoshkar-Ola)*, Mordoviya (Saransk)*, Moskovskaya, Moskva (Moscow)****,
  Murmanskaya, Nenetskiy (Nar'yan-Mar)**, Nizhegorodskaya, Novgorodskaya,
  Novosibirskaya, Omskaya, Orenburgskaya, Orlovskaya (Orel), Penzenskaya,
  Permskaya, Komi-Permyatskiy (Kudymkar)**, Primorskiy (Vladivostok)***,
  Pskovskaya, Rostovskaya, Ryazanskaya, Sakha (Yakutsk)*, Sakhalinskaya
  (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samarskaya, Sankt-Peterburg (Saint Petersburg)****,
  Saratovskaya, Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya [North Ossetia] (Vladikavkaz)*,
  Smolenskaya, Stavropol'skiy***, Sverdlovskaya (Yekaterinburg), Tambovskaya,
  Tatarstan (Kazan')*, Taymyrskiy (Dudinka)**, Tomskaya, Tul'skaya,
  Tverskaya, Tyumenskaya, Tyva (Kyzyl)*, Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)*, Ul'yanovskaya,
  Ust'-Ordynskiy Buryatskiy (Ust'-Ordynskiy)**, Vladimirskaya,
  Volgogradskaya, Vologodskaya, Voronezhskaya, Yamalo-Nenetskiy
  (Salekhard)**, Yaroslavskaya, Yevreyskaya*****; note - when using a place
  name with an adjectival ending 'skaya' or 'skiy,' the word Oblast' or
  Avonomnyy Okrug or Kray should be added to the place name
  note: the autonomous republics of Chechnya and Ingushetiya were formerly
    the autonomous republic of Checheno-Ingushetia (the boundary between
    Chechnya and Ingushetia has yet to be determined); administrative
    divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions
    have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

Independence:
  24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)

National holiday:
  Russia Day, 12 June (1990)

Constitution:
  adopted 12 December 1993

Legal system:
  based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts

Suffrage:
  18 years of age; universal

Executive branch:
  chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (acting president
    since 31 December 1999, president since 7 May 2000)
  head of government: Premier Mikhail Mikhaylovich KASYANOV (since 7 May
    2000); First Deputy Premier Aleksey Leonidovich KUDRIN (since 18 May
    2000), Deputy Premiers Aleksey Vasilyevich GORDEYEV (since 20 May 2000),
    Viktor Borisovich KHRISTENKO (since 31 May 1999), Ilya Iosifovich
    KLEBANOV (since 31 May 1999), Valentina Ivanovna MATVIYENKO (since 22
    September 1998)
  cabinet: Ministries of the Government or "Government" composed of the
    premier and his deputies, ministers, and other agency heads; all are
    appointed by the president
  note: there is also a Presidential Administration (PA) that provides staff
    and policy support to the president, drafts presidential decrees, and
    coordinates policy among government agencies; a Security Council also
    reports directly to the president
  elections: president elected by popular vote for a four-year term; election
    last held 26 March 2000 (next to be held NA 2004); note - no vice
    president; if the president dies in office, cannot exercise his powers
    because of ill health, is impeached, or resigns, the premier succeeds
    him; the premier serves as acting president until a new presidential
    election is held, which must be within three months; premier appointed by
    the president with the approval of the Duma
  election results: Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN elected president; percent
    of vote - PUTIN 52.9%, Gennadiy Aadreyevich ZYUGANOV 29.2%, Grigoriy
    Alekseyevich YAVLINSKIY 5.8%

Legislative branch:
  bicameral Federal Assembly or Federalnoye Sobraniye consists of the
  Federation Council or Sovet Federatsii (178 seats; as of July 2000, members
  appointed by the top executive and legislative officials in each of the 89
  federal administrative units - oblasts, krays, republics, autonomous okrugs
  and oblasts, and the federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg; members
  serve four-year terms) and the State Duma or Gosudarstvennaya Duma (450
  seats; half elected by proportional representation from party lists winning
  at least 5% of the vote, and half from single-member constituencies;
  members are elected by direct popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: State Duma - last held 19 December 1999 (next to be held NA
    December 2003)
  election results: State Duma - percent of vote received by parties clearing
    the 5% threshold entitling them to a proportional share of the 225 party
    list seats - KPRF 24.29%, Unity 23.32%, OVR 13.33%, Union of Right Forces
    8.52%, LDPR 5.98%, Yabloko 5.93%; seats by party - KPRF 113, Unity 72,
    OVR 67, Union of Rightist Forces 29, LDPR 17, Yabloko 21, other 16,
    independents 106, repeat election required 8, vacant 1

Judicial branch:
  Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Superior Court of Arbitration; judges
  for all courts are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the
  recommendation of the president

Political parties and leaders:
  Agrarian Party [Mikhail Ivanovich LAPSHIN]; Communist Party of the Russian
  Federation or KPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Fatherland-All Russia
  or OVR [Yuriy Mikhailovich LUZHKOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or
  LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Union of Right Forces [Anatoliy
  Borisovich CHUBAYS, Yegor Timurovich GAYDAR, Irina Mutsuovna KHAKAMADA,
  Boris Yefimovich NEMTSOV]; Unity [Sergey Kuzhugetovich SHOYGU]; Yabloko
  Bloc [Grigoriy Alekseyevich YAVLINSKIY]
  note: some 150 political parties, blocs, and movements registered with the
    Justice Ministry as of the 19 December 1998 deadline to be eligible to
    participate in the 19 December 1999 Duma elections; of these, 36
    political organizations actually qualified to run slates of candidates on
    the Duma party list ballot, 6 parties cleared the 5% threshold to win a
    proportional share of the 225 party seats in the Duma, 9 other
    organizations hold seats in the Duma: Bloc of Nikolayev and Academician
    Fedorov, Congress of Russian Communities, Movement in Support of the
    Army, Our Home Is Russia, Party of Pensioners, Power to the People,
    Russian All-People's Union, Russian Socialist Party, and Spiritual
    Heritage; primary political blocs include pro-market democrats - (Yabloko
    Bloc and Union of Right Forces), anti-market and/or ultranationalist
    (Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Liberal Democratic Party
    of Russia)

Political pressure groups and leaders:
  NA

International organization participation:
  APEC, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, BSEC, CBSS, CCC, CE, CERN (observer),
  CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, ESCAP, G- 8, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA,
  IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM
  (observer), ISO, ITU, LAIA (observer), MINURSO, MONUC, NAM (guest), NSG,
  OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UN Security Council, UNAMSIL,
  UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMEE, UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOP,
  UNOMIG, UNTAET, UNTSO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO (observer), ZC

Diplomatic representation in the US:
  chief of mission: Ambassador Yuriy Viktorovich USHAKOV chancery: 2650
    Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
  telephone: [1] (202) 298-5700, 5701, 5704, 5708
  FAX: [1] (202) 298-5735
  consulate(s) general: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle

Diplomatic representation from the US:
  chief of mission: Ambassador James F. COLLINS embassy: Novinskiy Bul'var
    19/23, 121099 Moscow
  mailing address: APO AE 09721
  telephone: [7] (095) 728-5000
  FAX: [7] (095) 728-5203
  consulate(s) general: Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg

Flag description:
  three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red

§5. Russia Economy

Economy - overview:
  A decade after the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia is still
  struggling to establish a modern market economy and achieve strong economic
  growth. In contrast to its trading partners in Central Europe - which were
  able to overcome the initial production declines that accompanied the
  launch of market reforms within three to five years - Russia saw its
  economy contract for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered
  over the implementation of many of the basic foundations of a market
  economy. Russia achieved a slight recovery in 1997, but the government's
  stubborn budget deficits and the country's poor business climate made it
  vulnerable when the global financial crisis swept through in 1998. The
  crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble, a debt default
  by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most
  of the population. The economy rebounded in 1999 and 2000, buoyed by the
  competitive boost from the weak ruble and a surging trade surplus fueled by
  rising world oil prices. This recovery, along with a renewed government
  effort in 2000 to advance lagging structural reforms, have raised business
  and investor confidence over Russia's prospects in its second decade of
  transition. Yet serious problems persist. Russia remains heavily dependent
  on exports of commodities, particularly oil, natural gas, metals, and
  timber, which account for over 80% of exports, leaving the country
  vulnerable to swings in world prices. Russia's agricultural sector remains
  beset by uncertainty over land ownership rights, which has discouraged
  needed investment and restructuring. Another threat is negative demographic
  trends, fueled by low birth rates and a deteriorating health situation -
  including an alarming rise in AIDS cases - that have contributed to a
  nearly 2% drop in the population since 1992. Russia's industrial base is
  increasingly dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country
  is to achieve sustainable economic growth. Other problems include
  widespread corruption, capital flight, and brain drain.

GDP:
  purchasing power parity - $1.12 trillion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
  6.3% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita:
  purchasing power parity - $7,700 (2000 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
  agriculture: 7% industry: 34%
  services: 59% (1999 est.)

Population below poverty line:
  40% (1999 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
  lowest 10%: 1.7% highest 10%: 38.7% (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
  20.6% (2000 est.)

Labor force:
  66 million (1997)

Labor force - by occupation:
  agriculture 15%, industry 30%, services 55% (1999 est.)

Unemployment rate:
  10.5% (2000 est.), plus considerable underemployment

Budget:
  revenues: $40 billion
  expenditures: $33.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000
    est.)

Industries:
  complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil,
  gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling
  mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; shipbuilding; road
  and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural
  machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating
  and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer
  durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate:
  8.8% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production:
  798.065 billion kWh (1999)

Electricity - production by source:
  fossil fuel: 66.31% hydro: 19.79%
  nuclear: 13.9%
  other: 0% (1999)

Electricity - consumption:
  728.2 billion kWh (1999)

Electricity - exports:
  20 billion kWh (1999)

Electricity - imports:
  6 billion kWh (1999)

Agriculture - products:
  grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk

Exports:
  $105.1 billion (2000 est.)

Exports - commodities:
  petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products,
  metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures

Exports - partners:
  US 8.8%, Germany 8.5%, Ukraine 6.5%, Belarus 5.1%, Italy 5%, Netherlands
  4.8% (1999)

Imports:
  $44.2 billion (2000 est.)

Imports - commodities:
  machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, grain, sugar,
  semifinished metal products

Imports - partners:
  Germany 13.8%, Belarus 10.7%, Ukraine 8.3%, US 7.9%, Kazakhstan 4.6%, Italy
  3.8% (1999)

Debt - external:
  $163 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
  $8.523 billion (1995)

Currency:
  Russian ruble (RUR)

Currency code:
  RUR

Exchange rates:
  Russian rubles per US dollar - 28.3592 (January 2001), 28.1292 (2000),
  24.6199 (1999), 9.7051 (1998), 5,785 (1997), 5,121 (1996)
  note: the post-1 January 1998 ruble is equal to 1,000 of the pre-1 January
    1998 rubles

Fiscal year:
  calendar year

§6. Russia Communications

Telephones - main lines in use:
  30 million (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
  2.5 million (October 2000)

Telephone system:
  general assessment: the telephone system has undergone significant changes
    in the 1990s; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer
    communication services; access to digital lines has improved,
    particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services are
    improving; Russia has made progress toward building the
    telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy;
    however, a large demand for main line service remains unsatisfied
  domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to
    Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60
    regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services,
    both analog and digital, are available in many areas; in rural areas, the
    telephone services are still outdated, inadequate, and low density
  international: Russia is connected internationally by three undersea
    fiber-optic cables; digital switches in several cities provide more than
    50,000 lines for international calls; satellite earth stations provide
    access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems

Radio broadcast stations:
  AM 420, FM 447, shortwave 56 (1998)

Radios:
  61.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
  7,306 (1998)

Televisions:
  60.5 million (1997)

Internet country code:
  .ru

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
  35 (2000)

Internet users:
  9.2 million (2000)

§7. Russia Transportation

Railways:
  total: 149,000 km
  note: 86,000 km are in common carrier service; 63,000 km serve specific
    industries and are not available for common carrier use; 40,000 km of the
    railway in common carrier use are electrified
  broad gauge: 149,000 km 1.520-m gauge (1998)

Highways:
  total: 952,000 km
  paved: 752,000 km (including, in addition to about 336,000 km of
    conventionally paved roads, about 416,000 km of roads, the surfaces of
    which have been stabilized with gravel or other coarse aggregates, making
    them trafficable in wet weather)
  unpaved: 200,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are
    difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)

Waterways:
  95,900 km (total routes in general use)
  note: routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet-95,900
    km; routes with night navigational aids-60,400 km; man-made navigable
    routes-16,900 km (Jan 1994)

Pipelines:
  crude oil 48,000 km; petroleum products 15,000 km; natural gas 140,000 km
  (June 1993 est.)

Ports and harbors:
  Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Kaliningrad, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk,
  Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk,
  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Saint Petersburg, Rostov, Sochi, Tuapse,
  Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg

Merchant marine:
  total: 878 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,314,485 GRT/5,344,958 DWT
  ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 20, cargo 543, chemical tanker 4,
    combination bulk 21, combination ore/oil 7, container 31,
    multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 35, passenger/cargo 3,
    petroleum tanker 164, refrigerated cargo 24, roll on/roll off 17,
    short-sea passenger 7
  note: includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of
    convenience: Reunion 1 (2000 est.)

Airports:
  2,743 (2000 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
  total: 471 over 3,047 m: 56
  2,438 to 3,047 m: 178
  1,524 to 2,437 m: 76
  914 to 1,523 m: 69
  under 914 m: 92 (2000 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
  total: 2,272 over 3,047 m: 28
  2,438 to 3,047 m: 118
  1,524 to 2,437 m: 204
  914 to 1,523 m: 324
  under 914 m: 1,598 (2000 est.)

§8. Russia Military

Military branches:
  Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces

Military manpower - military age:
  18 years of age

Military manpower - availability:
  males age 15-49: 38,866,147 (2001 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
  males age 15-49: 30,337,743 (2001 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
  males: 1,242,778 (2001 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
  $NA

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
  NA%

§9. Russia Transnational Issues

Disputes - international:
  dispute over at least two small sections of the boundary with China remains
  to be settled, despite 1997 boundary agreement; islands of Etorofu,
  Kunashiri, and Shikotan and the Habomai group occupied by the Soviet Union
  in 1945, now administered by Russia, claimed by Japan; Caspian Sea
  boundaries are not yet determined among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan,
  Russia, and Turkmenistan; Estonian and Russian negotiators reached a
  technical border agreement in December 1996, which has not been signed or
  ratified by Russia as of February 2001; draft treaty delimiting the
  boundary with Latvia has not been signed; 1997 border agreement with
  Lithuania not yet ratified; has made no territorial claim in Antarctica
  (but has reserved the right to do so) and does not recognize the claims of
  any other nation; Svalbard is the focus of a maritime boundary dispute
  between Norway and Russia

Illicit drugs:
  limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of
  amphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active
  eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for Southwest
  and Southeast Asian opiates and cannabis and Latin American cocaine to
  Western Europe, possibly to the US, and growing domestic market; major
  source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are
  major concerns; heroin an increasing threat in domestic drug market
