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English Dictionary: Russia by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Russia
n
  1. 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
    Synonym(s): Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR
  2. formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
    Synonym(s): Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
  3. 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
  4. a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
    Synonym(s): Russia, Russian Federation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Russia \Rus"sia\, n.
      A country of Europe and Asia.
  
      {Russia iron}, a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a
            lustrous blue-black surface.
  
      {Russia leather}, a soft kind of leather, made originally in
            Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from
            being impregnated with an oil obtained from birch bark. It
            is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being
            subject to mold, and being proof against insects.
  
      {Russia matting}, matting manufactured in Russia from the
            inner bark of the linden ({Tilia Europ[91]a}).

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Russia, OH (village, FIPS 69344)
      Location: 40.23240 N, 84.41087 W
      Population (1990): 442 (143 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 45363

From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
   Russia
  
   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
  
   Map references: Asia
  
   Area:
   total area: 17,075,200 sq km
   land area: 16,995,800 sq km
   comparative area: slightly more than 1.8 times the size of the US
  
   Land boundaries: total 20,139 km, Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km,
   China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 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
   3,441 km, Norway 167 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 432 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
  
   International disputes: inherited disputes from former USSR including:
   sections of the boundary with China; islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri,
   and Shikotan and the Habomai group occupied by the Soviet Union in
   1945, administered by Russia, claimed by Japan; maritime dispute with
   Norway over portion of the Barents Sea; Caspian Sea boundaries are not
   yet determined; potential dispute with Ukraine over Crimea; Estonia
   claims over 2,000 sq km of Russian territory in the Narva and Pechora
   regions; the Abrene section of the border ceded by the Latvian Soviet
   Socialist Republic to Russia in 1944; 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
  
   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
  
   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: NEGL%
   meadows and pastures: 5%
   forest and woodland: 45%
   other: 42%
  
   Irrigated land: 56,000 sq km (1992)
  
   Environment:
   current issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of
   coal-fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities;
   industrial 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
   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
   international agreements: party to - Air Pollution, Air
   Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic Treaty,
   Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification,
   Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer
   Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling;
   signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Sulphur 94,
   Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Biodiversity, Law of the Sea
  
   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
  
   Russia:People
  
   Population: 149,909,089 (July 1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put the population at 148,200,000
   for 1994
  
   Age structure:
   0-14 years: 22% (female 16,208,640; male 16,784,017)
   15-64 years: 66% (female 50,711,209; male 48,247,101)
   65 years and over: 12% (female 12,557,447; male 5,400,675) (July 1995
   est.)
  
   Population growth rate: 0.2% (1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put the population growth rate at
   -6.0% for 1994
  
   Birth rate: 12.64 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put the birth rate at 9.5 births per
   l,000 population for 1994
  
   Death rate: 11.36 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put the death rate at 15.5 deaths
   per l,000 population in 1994
  
   Net migration rate: 0.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Infant mortality rate: 26.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put the infant mortality rate at
   19.9 deaths per l,000 live births in 1994
  
   Life expectancy at birth:
   total population: 69.1 years
   male: 64.1 years
   female: 74.35 years (1995 est.)
   note: official Russian statistics put life expectancy at birth as 64
   years for total population in 1994
  
   Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman (1995 est.)
  
   Nationality:
   noun: Russian(s)
   adjective: Russian
  
   Ethnic divisions: 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: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
   total population: 98%
   male: 100%
   female: 97%
  
   Labor force: 85 million (1993)
   by occupation: production and economic services 83.9%, government
   16.1%
  
   Russia:Government
  
   Names:
   conventional long form: Russian Federation
   conventional short form: Russia
   local long form: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
   local short form: Rossiya
   former: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
  
   Digraph: RS
  
   Type: federation
  
   Capital: Moscow
  
   Administrative divisions: 21 autonomous republics (avtomnykh
   respublik, singular - avtomnaya respublika); Adygea (Maykop),
   Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatia (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy),
   Chuvashia (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Gorno-Altay
   (Gorno-Altaysk), Ingushetia (Nazran'), Kabardino-Balkaria (Nal'chik),
   Kalmykia (Elista), Karachay-Cherkessia (Cherkessk), Karelia
   (Petrozavodsk), Khakassia (Abakan), Komi (Syktyvkar), Mari El
   (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordovia (Saransk), North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz),
   Tatarstan (Kazan'), Tuva (Kyzyl), Udmurtia (Izhevsk), Yakutia - also
   known as Sakha (Yakutsk); 49 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast');
   Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Belgorod, Bryansk,
   Chelyabinsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kamchatka
   (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk,
   Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk,
   Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orel, Orenburg, Penza,
   Perm', Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan', Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara,
   Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula,
   Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh,
   Yaroslavl'; 6 krays (krayev, singular - kray); Altay (Barnaul),
   Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Primorskiy (Vladivostok),
   Stavropol'; 10 autonomous okrugs; Aga (Aginskoye), Chukotka (Anadyr'),
   Evenkia (Tura), Khantia-Mansia (Khanty-Mansiysk), Koryakia (Palana),
   Nenetsia (Nar'yan-Mar), Permyakia (Kudymkar), Taymyria (Dudinka),
   Ust'-Onda (Ust'-Ordynskiy), Yamalia (Salekhard); 1 autonomous oblast
   (avtomnykh oblast'); Birobijan
   note: the autonomous republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia were
   formerly the autonomous republic of Checheno-Ingushetia (the boundary
   between Chechenia and Ingushetia has yet to be determined); the cities
   of Moscow and St. Petersburg are federal cities; an administrative
   division has the same name as its administrative center (exceptions
   have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
  
   Independence: 24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
  
   National holiday: Independence Day, June 12 (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 Boris Nikolayevich YEL'TSIN (since 12 June
   1991); election last held 12 June 1991 (next to be held NA 1996);
   results - percent of vote by party NA; 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
   head of government: Premier and Chairman of the Council of Ministers
   Viktor Stepanovich CHERNOMYRDIN (since 14 December 1992); First Deputy
   Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Oleg SOSKOVETS (since 30 April
   1993) and Anatoliy CHUBAYS (since 5 November 1994)
   Security Council: originally established as a presidential advisory
   body in June 1991, but restructured in March 1992 with responsibility
   for managing individual and state security
   Presidential Administration: drafts presidential edicts and provides
   staff and policy support to the entire executive branch
   cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the president
   Group of Assistants: schedules president's appointments, processes
   presidential edicts and other official documents, and houses the
   president's press service and primary speechwriters
   Council of Heads of Republics: includes the leaders of the 21
   ethnic-based Republics
   Council of Heads of Administrations: includes the leaders of the 66
   autonomous territories and regions, and the mayors of Moscow and St.
   Petersburg
   Presidential Council: prepares policy papers for the president
  
   Legislative branch: bicameral Federal Assembly
   Federation Council: elections last held 12 December 1993 (next to be
   held NA); results - two members elected from each of Russia's 89
   territorial units for a total of 176 deputies; 2 seats unfilled as of
   15 May 1994 (Chechnya did not participate in the election); Speaker
   Vladimir SHUMEYKO (Russia's Democratic Choice)
   State Duma: elections last held 12 December 1993 (next to be held NA
   December 1995); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (450
   total) Russia's Democratic Choice 78, New Regional Policy 66, Liberal
   Democrats 63, Agrarian Party 55, Communist Party of the Russian
   Federation 45, Unity and Accord 30, Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc
   (Yabloko) 27, Women of Russia 23, Democratic Party of Russia 15,
   Russia's Path 12, other parties 23, affiliation unknown 12, unfilled
   (as of 13 March 1994; Chechnya did not participate in the election) 1;
   Speaker Ivan RYBKIN (Agrarian Party); note - as of 11 April 1995,
   seats were as follows: Russia's Democratic Choice 54, New Regional
   Policy 32, Liberal Democrats 54, Agrarian Party 51, Communist Party of
   the Russian Federation 45, Unity and Accord 25,
   Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc (Yabloko) 28, Liberal Democratic Union
   of 12 December 9, Women of Russia 22, Democratic Party of Russia 10,
   Russia's Path 12, Duma 96 23, Russia 35, Stability 36, affiliation
   unknown 14
  
   Judicial branch: Constitutional Court, Supreme Court (highest court
   for criminal, civil, and administrative cases), Superior Court of
   Arbitration (highest court that resolves economic disputes)
  
   Political parties and leaders:
   pro-market democrats: Party of Russian Unity and Accord, Sergey
   SHAKHRAY; Russia's Democratic Choice Party, Yegor GAYDAR; Russian
   Movement for Democratic Reforms, Anatoliy SOBCHAK;
   Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc (Yabloko), Grigoriy YAVLINSKIY; Liberal
   Democratic Union of 12 December, Boris FEDOROV
   centrists/special interest parties: Civic Union for Stability,
   Justice, and Progress, Arkadiy VOL'SKIY; Democratic Party of Russia,
   Sergey GLAZ'YEV; Women of Russia, Alevtina FEDULOVA; Social Democratic
   Peoples' Party, Vasiliy LIPITSKIY; New Regional Policy (NRP), Vladimir
   MEDVEDEV
   anti-market and/or ultranationalist parties: Agrarian Party, Mikhail
   LAPSHIN; Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennadiy ZYUGANOV;
   Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKIY; Derzhava,
   Aleksandr RUTSKOY
   note: more than 20 political parties and associations tried to gather
   enough signatures to run slates of candidates in the 12 December 1993
   legislative elections, but only 13 succeeded
  
   Other political or pressure groups: NA
  
   Member of: BSEC, CBSS, CCC, CE (guest), CERN (observer), CIS, EBRD,
   ECE, ESCAP, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,
   INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, MINURSO,
   NACC, NSG, OAS (observer), OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UN Security Council,
   UNAMIR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIH, UNOMOZ,
   UNPROFOR, UNTSO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
  
   Diplomatic representation in US:
   chief of mission: Ambassador Sergey LAVROV
   chancery: 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
   telephone: [1] (202) 298-5700 through 5704
   FAX: [1] (202) 298-5735
   consulate(s) general: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle
  
   US diplomatic representation:
   chief of mission: Ambassador Thomas R. PICKERING
   embassy: Novinskiy Bul'var 19/23, Moscow
   mailing address: APO AE 09721
   telephone: [7] (095) 252-24-51 through 59
   FAX: [7] (095) 956-42-61
   consulate(s) general: St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg
  
   Flag: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red
  
   Economy
  
   Overview: Russia, a vast country with a wealth of natural resources, a
   well-educated population, and a diverse industrial base, continues to
   experience formidable difficulties in moving from its old centrally
   planned economy to a modern market economy. President YEL'TSIN's
   government has made substantial strides in converting to a market
   economy since launching its economic reform program in January 1992 by
   freeing nearly all prices, slashing defense spending, eliminating the
   old centralized distribution system, completing an ambitious voucher
   privatization program, establishing private financial institutions,
   and decentralizing foreign trade. Russia, however, has made little
   progress in a number of key areas that are needed to provide a solid
   foundation for the transition to a market economy. Financial
   stabilization has remained elusive, with wide swings in monthly
   inflation rates. Only limited restructuring of industry has occurred
   so far because of a scarcity of investment funds and the failure of
   enterprise managers to make hard cost-cutting decisions. In addition,
   Moscow has yet to develop a social safety net that would allow faster
   restructuring by relieving enterprises of the burden of providing
   social benefits for their workers and has been slow to develop the
   legal framework necessary to fully support a market economy and to
   encourage foreign investment. As a result, output has continued to
   fall. According to Russian official data, which probably overstate the
   fall, GDP declined by 15% in 1994 compared with a 12% decline in 1993.
   Industrial output in 1994 fell 21% with all major sectors taking a
   hit. Agricultural production in 1994 was down 9%. The grain harvest
   totaled 81 million tons, some 15 million tons less than in 1993.
   Unemployment climbed to an estimated 6.6 million or about 7% of the
   work force by yearend 1994. Floundering Russian firms have already had
   to put another 4.8 million workers on involuntary, unpaid leave or
   shortened workweeks. Government fears of large-scale unemployment
   continued to hamper industrial restructuring efforts. According to
   official Russian data, real per capita income was up nearly 18% in
   1994 compared with 1993, in part because many Russians are working
   second jobs. Most Russians perceive that they are worse off now
   because of growing crime and health problems and mounting wage
   arrears. Russia has made significant headway in privatizing state
   assets, completing its voucher privatization program at midyear 1994.
   At least a portion of about 110,000 state enterprises were transferred
   to private hands by the end of 1994. Including partially privatized
   firms, the private sector accounted for roughly half of GDP in 1994.
   Financial stabilization continued to remain a challenge for the
   government. Moscow tightened financial policies in late 1993 and early
   1994, including postponing planned budget spending, and succeeded in
   reducing monthly inflation from 18% in January to about 5% in July and
   August. At midyear, however, the government relaxed austerity measures
   in the face of mounting pressure from industry and agriculture,
   sparking a new round of inflation; the monthly inflation rate jumped
   to roughly 15% per month during the fourth quarter. In response,
   Moscow announced a fairly tight government budget for 1995 designed to
   bring monthly inflation down to around 1% by the end of 1995.
   According to official statistics, Russia's 1994 trade with nations
   outside the former Soviet Union produced a $12.3 billion surplus, up
   from $11.3 billion in 1993. Foreign sales - comprised largely of oil,
   natural gas, and other raw materials - grew more than 8%. Imports also
   were up 8% as demand for food and other consumer goods surged. Russian
   trade with other former Soviet republics continued to decline. At the
   same time, Russia paid only a fraction of the roughly $20 billion in
   debt that came due in 1994, and by the end of the year, Russia's hard
   currency foreign debt had risen to nearly $100 billion. Moscow reached
   agreement to restructure debts with Paris Club official creditors in
   mid-1994 and concluded a preliminary deal with its commercial bank
   creditors late in the year to reschedule debts owed them in early
   1995. Capital flight continued to be a serious problem in 1994, with
   billions of additional dollars in assets being moved abroad, primarily
   to bank accounts in Europe. Russia's physical plant continues to
   deteriorate because of insufficient maintenance and new construction.
   Plant and equipment on average are twice the age of the West's. Many
   years will pass before Russia can take full advantage of its natural
   resources and its human assets.
  
   National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $721.2 billion (1994
   estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1992)
  
   National product real growth rate: -15% (1994 est.)
  
   National product per capita: $4,820 (1994 est.)
  
   Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% per month (average 1994)
  
   Unemployment rate: 7.1% (December 1994) with considerable additional
   underemployment
  
   Budget:
   revenues: $NA
   expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
  
   Exports: $48 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
   commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and
   wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and
   military manufactures
   partners: Europe, North America, Japan, Third World countries, Cuba
  
   Imports: $35.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
   commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat,
   grain, sugar, semifinished metal products
   partners: Europe, North America, Japan, Third World countries, Cuba
  
   External debt: $95 billion-$100 billion (yearend 1994)
  
   Industrial production: growth rate -21% (1994)
  
   Electricity:
   capacity: 213,100,000 KW
   production: 876 billion kWh
   consumption per capita: 5,800 kWh (1994)
  
   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; ship- building; 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
  
   Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, meat, milk,
   vegetables, fruits; because of its northern location does not grow
   citrus, cotton, tea, and other warm climate products
  
   Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
   for domestic consumption; government has active eradication program;
   used as transshipment point for Asian and Latin American illicit drugs
   to Western Europe and Latin America
  
   Economic aid:
   recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1990-94), $15 billion;
   other countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1990-93), $120
   billion
  
   Currency: 1 ruble (R) = 100 kopeks
  
   Exchange rates: rubles per US$1 - 3,550 (29 December 1994), 1,247 (27
   December 1993); nominal exchange rate still deteriorating but real
   exchange rate holding steady
  
   Fiscal year: calendar year
  
   Russia:Transportation
  
   Railroads:
   total: 154,000 km; note - 87,000 km in common carrier service (49,000
   km diesel; and 38,000 km electrified); 67,000 km serve specific
   industries and are not available for common carrier use
   broad gauge: 154,000 km 1.520-m gauge (1 January 1994)
  
   Highways:
   total: 934,000 km (445,000 km serve specific industries or farms and
   are not available for common carrier use)
   paved and graveled: 725,000 km
   unpaved: 209,000 km (1 January 1994)
  
   Inland waterways: total navigable routes in general use 101,000 km;
   routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet 95,900
   km; of which routes with night navigational aids 60,400 km; man-made
   navigable routes 16,900 km (1 January 1994)
  
   Pipelines: crude oil 48,000 km; petroleum products 15,000 km; natural
   gas 140,000 km (30 June 1993)
  
   Ports: Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Kaliningrad, Kazan', Khabarovsk,
   Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk,
   Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk, St. Petersburg, Rostov, Sochi, Tuapse,
   Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg
  
   Merchant marine:
   total: 800 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,295,109 GRT/10,128,579
   DWT
   ships by type: barge carrier 2, bulk cargo 26, cargo 424, chemical
   tanker 7, combination bulk 22, combination ore/oil 16, container 81,
   multifunction large-load carrier 3, oil tanker 111, passenger 4,
   passenger-cargo 5, refrigerated cargo 19, roll-on/roll-off cargo 62,
   short-sea passenger 16, specialized tanker 2
   note: in addition, Russia owns 235 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
   5,084,439 DWT that operate under Maltese, Cypriot, Liberian,
   Panamanian, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Honduran, Marshall
   Islands, Bahamian, and Vanuatu registry
  
   Airports:
   total: 2,517
   with paved runways over 3,047 m: 54
   with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 202
   with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 108
   with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 115
   with paved runways under 914 m: 151
   with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 25
   with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 45
   with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 134
   with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 291
   with unpaved runways under 914 m: 1,392
  
   Russia:Communications
  
   Telephone system: 24,400,000 telephones; 20,900,000 telephones in
   urban areas and 3,500,000 telephones in rural areas; of these, total
   installed in homes 15,400,000; total pay phones for long distant calls
   34,100; about 164 telephones/1,000 persons; Russia is enlisting
   foreign help, by means of joint ventures, to speed up the
   modernization of its telecommunications system; in 1992, only 661,000
   new telephones were installed compared with 855,000 in 1991, and in
   1992 the number of unsatisfied applications for telephones reached
   11,000,000; expanded access to international E-mail service available
   via Sprint network; the inadequacy of Russian telecommunications is a
   severe handicap to the economy, especially with respect to
   international connections
   local: NMT-450 analog cellular telephone networks are operational and
   growing in Moscow and St. Petersburg
   intercity: intercity fiberoptic cable installation remains limited
   international: international traffic is handled by an inadequate
   system of satellites, land lines, microwave radio relay and outdated
   submarine cables; this traffic passes through the international
   gateway switch in Moscow which carries most of the international
   traffic for the other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent
   States; a new Russian Raduga satellite will link Moscow and St.
   Petersburg with Rome from whence calls will be relayed to destinations
   in Europe and overseas; satellite earth stations - INTELSAT,
   Intersputnik, Eutelsat (Moscow), INMARSAT, Orbita
  
   Radio:
   broadcast stations: AM 1,050, FM 1,050, shortwave 1,050
   radios: 48.8 million (radio receivers with multiple speaker systems
   for program diffusion 74,300,000)
  
   Television:
   broadcast stations: 7,183
   televisions: 54.2 million
  
   Russia:Defense Forces
  
   Branches: Ground Forces, Navy, Air Forces, Air Defense Forces,
   Strategic Rocket Forces
  
   Manpower availability: males age 15-49 38,264,699; males fit for
   military service 29,951,977; males reach military age (18) annually
   1,106,176 (1995 est.)
  
   Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
   note: the Intelligence Community estimates that defense spending in
   Russia fell about 15% in real terms in 1994, reducing Russian defense
   outlays to about one-fourth of peak Soviet levels in the late 1980s;
   although Russia may still spend as much as 10% of its GDP on defense,
   this is significantly below the 15% to 17% burden the former USSR
   carried during much of the 1980s; conversion of military expenditures
   into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce
   misleading results
  
  
  
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