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factbook:GDP_compositionbysector_agriculture 5.3E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:GDP_compositionbysector_industry 36.6E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:GDP_compositionbysector_services 58.2E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:GDP_officialexchangerate 733000000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:GDP_percapita_PPP 12100 (xsd:long)
factbook:GDP_purchasingpowerparity 1723000000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:GDP_realgrowthrate 6.6E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:HIVorAIDS_adultprevalencerate 1.1E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:HIVorAIDS_deaths 9000
factbook:HIVorAIDS_peoplelivingwithHIVorAIDS 860000 (xsd:long)
factbook:administrativedivisions 48 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 7 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 7 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast)
factbook:administrativedivisions_note administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
factbook:agestructure_0_14years_female 10021316 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_0_14years_male 10563567 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_0_14years_percentage 14.6E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:agestructure_15_64years_female 52061604 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_15_64years_male 48412612 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_15_64years_percentage 71.1E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:agestructure_65yearsandover_female 13958615 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_65yearsandover_male 6360038 (xsd:long)
factbook:agestructure_65yearsandover_percentage 14.4E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:airports_total 1623 (xsd:long)
factbook:airports_withpavedrunways_total 616
factbook:airports_withunpavedrunways_total 1007
factbook:area_comparative approximately 1.8 times the size of the US
factbook:area_land 16995800
factbook:area_total 17075200
factbook:area_water 79400
factbook:background Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 contributed to the Revolution of 1905, which resulted in the formation of a parliament and other reforms. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Communist rule and 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 Russia and 14 other independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress has been made on the economic front, and Russias management of its windfall oil wealth has improved its financial standing, recent years have seen a recentralization of power under Vladimir PUTIN and democratic institutions remain weak. Russia has severely disabled the Chechen rebel movement, although sporadic violence still occurs throughout the North Caucasus.
factbook:birthrate 10.92E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:budget_expenditures $157300000000; including capital expenditures of $NA
factbook:budget_revenues 222200000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:capital_daylightsavingtime +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
factbook:capital_geographiccoordinates 55 45 N, 37 35 E
factbook:capital_name Moscow
factbook:capital_timedifference UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
factbook: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
factbook:coastline_total 37653 (xsd:long)
factbook:constitution adopted 12 December 1993
factbook:countryname_conventionallongform Russian Federation
factbook:countryname_conventionalshortform Russia
factbook:countryname_locallongform Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
factbook:countryname_localshortform Rossiya
factbook:currency_code Russian ruble (RUR)
factbook:currencycode RUR
factbook:currentaccountbalance 105300000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:deathrate 16.04E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:debt_external $287400000000 (30 June 2006 est.)
foaf:depiction
factbook:disputes_international China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with the 2004 Agreement, ending their centuries-long border disputes; the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kurils," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Russia and Georgia agree on delimiting all but small, strategic segments of the land boundary and the maritime boundary; OSCE observers monitor volatile areas such as the Pankisi Gorge in the Akhmeti region and the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia signed equidistance boundaries in the Caspian seabed but the littoral states have no consensus on dividing the water column; Russia and Norway dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea and Russias fishing rights beyond Svalbards territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone; various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia (Kareliya) and other areas ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands; in May 2005, Russia recalled its signatures to the 1996 border agreements with Estonia (1996) and Latvia (1997), when the two Baltic states announced issuance of unilateral declarations referencing Soviet occupation and ensuing territorial losses; Russia demands better treatment of ethnic Russians in Estonia and Latvia; Estonian citizen groups continue to press for realignment of the boundary based on the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty that would bring the now divided ethnic Setu people and parts of the Narva region within Estonia; Lithuania and Russia committed to demarcating their boundary in 2006 in accordance with the land and maritime treaty ratified by Russia in May 2003 and by Lithuania in 1999; Lithuania operates a simplified transit regime for Russian nationals traveling from the Kaliningrad coastal exclave into Russia, while still conforming, as an EU member state with an EU external border, where strict Schengen border rules apply; preparations for the demarcation delimitation of land boundary with Ukraine have commenced; the dispute over the boundary between Russia and Ukraine through the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov remains unresolved despite a December 2003 framework agreement and on-going expert-level discussions; Kazakhstan and Russia boundary delimitation was ratified on November 2005 and field demarcation should commence in 2007; Russian Duma has not yet ratified 1990 Bering Sea Maritime Boundary Agreement with the US
factbook:distributionoffamilyincome_Giniindex 40.5E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:economicaid_recipient 0 (xsd:long)
factbook:economy_overview Russia ended 2006 with its eighth straight year of growth, averaging 6.7% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble initially drove this growth, since 2003 consumer demand and, more recently, investment have played a significant role. Over the last five years, fixed capital investments have averaged real gains greater than 10% per year and personal incomes have achieved real gains more than 12% per year. During this time, poverty has declined steadily and the middle class has continued to expand. Russia has also improved its international financial position since the 1998 financial crisis. The federal budget has run surpluses since 2001 and ended 2006 with a surplus of 9% of GDP. Over the past several years, Russia has used its stabilization fund based on oil taxes to prepay all Soviet-era sovereign debt to Paris Club creditors and the IMF. Foreign debt has decreased to 39% of GDP, mainly due to decreasing state debt, although commercial debt to foreigners has risen strongly. Oil export earnings have allowed Russia to increase its foreign reserves from $12000000000 in 1999 to some $12000000000 at yearend 2006, the third largest reserves in the world. During PUTINs first administration, a number of important reforms were implemented in the areas of tax, banking, labor, and land codes. These achievements have raised business and investor confidence in Russias economic prospects, with foreign direct investment rising from $12000000000 in 2005 to an estimated $12000000000 in 2006. In 2006, Russias GDP grew 6.6%, while inflation was below 10% for the first time in the past 10 years. Growth was driven by non-tradable services and goods for the domestic market, as opposed to oil or mineral extraction and exports. Russia has signed a bilateral market access agreement with the US as a prelude to possible WTO entry, and its companies are involved in global merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas, metals, and telecom sectors. Despite Russias recent success, serious problems persist. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports and 32% of government revenues, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world commodity prices. Russias manufacturing base is dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to achieve broad-based economic growth. A 20% appreciation of the ruble over 2005-06 has made attracting additional investment more difficult. The banking system, while increasing consumer lending and growing at a high rate, is still small relative to the banking sectors of Russias emerging market peers. Political uncertainties ahead of the elections, corruption, and widespread lack of trust in institutions continue to dampen domestic and foreign investor sentiment. From 2002 to 2005, the government bureaucracy increased by 17% - 10.9% in 2005 alone. President PUTIN has granted more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. Russia has made little progress in building the rule of law, the bedrock of a modern market economy. The government has promised additional legislation to make its intellectual property protection WTO-consistent, but enforcement remains problematic.
factbook:electricity_consumption 940000000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:electricity_exports 22300000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:electricity_imports 9900000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:electricity_production 952400000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:electricity_productionbysource_fossilfuel 66.3E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:electricity_productionbysource_hydro 17 (xsd:long)
factbook:electricity_productionbysource_nuclear 16.4E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:electricity_productionbysource_other 0.1E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:elevationextremes_highestpoint 5633 (xsd:long)
factbook:elevationextremes_highestpoint_place Gora Elbrus
factbook:elevationextremes_lowestpoint -28 (xsd:long)
factbook:elevationextremes_lowestpoint_place Caspian Sea
factbook:environment_currentissues 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 seacoasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; groundwater contamination from toxic waste; urban solid waste management; abandoned stocks of obsolete pesticides
factbook:executivebranch_cabinet Ministries of the Government or "Government" composed of the premier and his deputies, ministers, and selected other individuals; all are appointed by the president
factbook:executivebranch_chiefofstate President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (acting president 31 December 1999-6 May 2000, president since 7 May 2000)
factbook:executivebranch_electionresults Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN reelected president; percent of vote - Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN 71.2%, Nikolay KHARITONOV 13.7%, other (no candidate above 5%) 15.1%
factbook:executivebranch_elections president elected by popular vote for a four-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held 14 March 2004 (next to be held in March 2008); note - no vice president; if the president dies in office, cannot exercise his powers because of ill health, is impeached, or resigns, 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
factbook:executivebranch_headofgovernment Premier Mikhail Yefimovich FRADKOV (since 5 March 2004); First Deputy Premiers Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV (since 14 November 2005) and Sergey Borisovich IVANOV (since 15 February 2007), Deputy Premier Aleksandr Dmitriyevich ZHUKOV (since 9 March 2004)
factbook:exports 317600000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:factbookcode rs
factbook:fiscalyear calendar year
factbook:flag <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/rs-flag.gif>
factbook:flagdescription three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red
factbook:geographiccoordinates_latitude 60.0E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:geographiccoordinates_longitude 100.0E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:governmenttype federation
factbook:heliports 52 (xsd:long)
factbook:householdincomeorconsumptionbypercentageshare_highest10pc 38.7E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:householdincomeorconsumptionbypercentageshare_lowest10pc 2 (xsd:long)
factbook:imports 171500000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:independence 24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
factbook:industrialproductiongrowthrate 4.8E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:infantmortalityrate_female 9.42E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:infantmortalityrate_male 12.6E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:infantmortalityrate_total 11.06E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:inflationrate_consumerprices 9.8E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:internetServiceProviders_ISPs 300 (xsd:long)
factbook:internetcountrycode .ru; note - Russia also has responsibility for a legacy domain ".su" that was allocated to the Soviet Union, and whose legal status and ownership are contested by the Russian Government, ICANN, and several Russian commercial entities
factbook:internethosts 1980000
factbook:internetusers 23700000
factbook:investment_grossfixed 18.2% of GDP
factbook:irrigatedland_total 46000
factbook:judicialbranch Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Supreme Arbitration Court; judges for all courts are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president
rdfs:label Russia
factbook:laborforce 73880000 (xsd:long)
factbook:laborforce_byoccupation_agriculture 10.8E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:laborforce_byoccupation_industry 29.1E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:laborforce_byoccupation_services 60.1E0 (xsd:double)
is factbook:landboundary of db:Azerbaijan
is factbook:landboundary of db:Belarus
is factbook:landboundary of db:China
is factbook:landboundary of db:Estonia
is factbook:landboundary of db:European_Union
is factbook:landboundary of db:Finland
is factbook:landboundary of db:Georgia
is factbook:landboundary of db:Kazakhstan
is factbook:landboundary of db:Korea_North
is factbook:landboundary of db:Latvia
is factbook:landboundary of db:Lithuania
is factbook:landboundary of db:Mongolia
is factbook:landboundary of db:Norway
is factbook:landboundary of db:Poland
is factbook:landboundary of db:Ukraine
factbook:landboundary db:Azerbaijan
factbook:landboundary db:Belarus
factbook:landboundary db:China
factbook:landboundary db:Estonia
factbook:landboundary db:Finland
factbook:landboundary db:Georgia
factbook:landboundary db:Kazakhstan
factbook:landboundary db:Latvia
factbook:landboundary db:Lithuania
factbook:landboundary db:Mongolia
factbook:landboundary db:Norway
factbook:landboundary db:Poland
factbook:landboundary db:Ukraine
factbook:landuse_arableland 7.17E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:landuse_other 92.72E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:landuse_permanentcrops 0.11E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:large_flag <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/rs-lgflag.gif>
factbook:legalsystem based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts
factbook:legislativebranch 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 88 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; as of 2007, all members elected by proportional representation from party lists winning at least 7% of the vote; members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
factbook:legislativebranch_electionresults State Duma - percent of vote received by parties clearing the 5% threshold entitling them to a proportional share of the 225 party list seats - United Russia 37.1%, CPRF 12.7%, LDPR 11.6%, Motherland 9.1%, other 29.5%; total seats by party - United Russia 222, CPRF 53, LDPR 38, Motherland 37, Peoples Party 19, Yabloko 4, SPS 2, other 7, independents 65, repeat election required 3; note - seats by party as of 1 July 2006 - United Russia 309, CPRF 45, LDPR 35, Motherland 29, Peoples Party 12, independents 18, vacant 2
factbook:legislativebranch_elections State Duma - last held 7 December 2003 (next to be held in December 2007)
factbook:lifeexpectancyatbirth_female 73 (xsd:long)
factbook:lifeexpectancyatbirth_male 59.12E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:lifeexpectancyatbirth_totalpopulation 65.87E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:literacy_definition age 15 and over can read and write
factbook:literacy_female 100 (xsd:long)
factbook:literacy_male 100 (xsd:long)
factbook:literacy_totalpopulation 100 (xsd:long)
factbook:location Northern Asia (the area west of the Urals is considered part of Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean
foaf:logo <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/rs-flag.gif>
factbook:manpoweravailableformilitaryservice_femalesage18_49 35986426 (xsd:long)
factbook:manpoweravailableformilitaryservice_malesage18_49 35247049 (xsd:long)
factbook:manpowerfitformilitaryservice_femalesage18_49 29056021 (xsd:long)
factbook:manpowerfitformilitaryservice_malesage18_49 21049651 (xsd:long)
factbook:manpowerreachingmilitaryserviceageannually_femalesage18_49 1244264 (xsd:long)
factbook:manpowerreachingmilitaryserviceageannually_malesage18_49 1286069 (xsd:long)
factbook:map <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/maps/rs-map.gif>
factbook:maritimeclaims_contiguouszone 24 (xsd:long)
factbook:maritimeclaims_exclusiveeconomiczone 200
factbook:maritimeclaims_territorialsea 12 (xsd:long)
factbook:medianage_female 41.3E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:medianage_male 35.0E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:medianage_total 38 (xsd:long)
factbook:merchantmarine_foreign_owned 100 (Belgium 4, Canada 1, Cyprus 2, Estonia 1, Germany 2, Greece 1, Latvia 2, Malta 4, Norway 1, Switzerland 7, Turkey 63, Ukraine 11, US 1)
factbook:merchantmarine_registeredinothercountries 465 (Antigua and Barbuda 6, Bahamas 6, Belize 36, Bulgaria 1, Cambodia 105, Comoros 4, Cyprus 53, Dominica 2, Finland 1, Georgia 28, North Korea 1, Liberia 77, Malta 70, Marshall Islands 1, Mongolia 13, Panama 7, Saint Kitts and Nevis 5, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 29, Sierra Leone 1, Tuvalu 2, Ukraine 1, Vanuatu 1, Venezuela 1, unknown 14)
factbook:merchantmarine_total 1178 (xsd:long)
factbook:merchantmarine_total_dwt 6287784 (xsd:long)
factbook:merchantmarine_total_grt 5080341 (xsd:long)
factbook:militaryexpenditures_percentofGDP 0.0E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:militaryserviceageandobligation Russia has adopted a mixed conscript-contract force; 18-27 years of age; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; length of compulsory military service is 2 years; plans call for reduction in mandatory service to 18 months in 2007 and to 1 year by 2008; 30% of Russian army personnel were contract servicemen at the end of 2005; planning calls for volunteer servicemen to compose 70% of armed forces by 2010, with the remaining servicemen consisting of conscripts; as of November 2006, the Armed Forces had more than 60 units manned with contract personnel totaling over 78000 contract privates and sergeants; 88 Ministry of Defense units have been designated as permanent readiness units and are expected to become all-volunteer by end 2007; these include most air force, naval, and nuclear arms units, as well as all airborne and naval infantry units, most motorized rifle brigades, and all special forces detachments
factbook:name Russia
factbook:nationalholiday Russia Day, 12 June
factbook:nationality_adjective Russian
factbook:nationality_noun Russian(s)
factbook:naturalgas_consumption 445100000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:naturalgas_exports 216800000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:naturalgas_imports 36600000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:naturalgas_production 641000000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:naturalgas_provedreserves 47570000000000 cu m (1 January 2005 est.)
factbook:netmigrationrate 0.28E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:oil_consumption 2500000 (xsd:long)
factbook:oil_exports 7000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:oil_imports 100000 (xsd:long)
factbook:oil_production 9400000 (xsd:long)
factbook:oil_provedreserves 74400000000
factbook:population_total 141377752 (xsd:long)
factbook:populationbelowpovertyline 17.8E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:populationgrowthrate -0.484E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:portsandterminals Anapa, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Rostov-na-Donu, Saint Petersburg, Taganrog, Vanino, Vostochnyy
factbook:publicdebt 8% of GDP
factbook:radiobroadcaststations AM 323, FM 1500 est., shortwave 62
factbook:railways_total 87157 (xsd:long)
factbook:reservesofforeignexchangeandgold 314500000000 (xsd:long)
factbook:roadways_paved 738000 km (includes 29000 km of expressways)
factbook:roadways_total 871000
factbook:sexratio_15_64years 0.93E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:sexratio_65yearsandover 0.456E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:sexratio_atbirth 1.06E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:sexratio_totalpopulation 0.859E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:sexratio_under15years 1.054E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:suffrage 18 years of age; universal
factbook:telephones_mainlinesinuse 40100000
factbook:telephones_mobilecellular 120000000
factbook:telephonesystem_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
factbook:telephonesystem_generalassessment the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; there are more than 1000 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; the estimated number of mobile subscribers jumped from fewer than 1000000 in 1998 to 1000000 in 2005; a large demand for main line service remains unsatisfied, but fixed-line operators continue to grow their services
factbook:telephonesystem_international country code - 7; Russia is connected internationally by 3 undersea fiber-optic cables; digital switches in several cities provide more than 50000 lines for international calls; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems
factbook:televisionbroadcaststations 7306
factbook:televisions 60500000 (xsd:long)
factbook:terrain broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
factbook:totalfertilityrate 1.39 children born/woman
rdf:type factbook:Country
factbook:unemploymentrate 6.6E0 (xsd:double)
factbook:url <https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rs.html>

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