Facts and Figures:
Russian Federation
National name: Rossiyskaya
Federatsiya
President: Vladimir Putin (2000)
Prime Minister: Mikhail Fradkov (2004)
Area: 6,592,735 sq mi (17,075,200 sq
km)
Population (2005 est.): 143,420,309
(growth rate: –0.4%); birth rate: 9.8
/1000; infant mortality rate: 15.4/1000;
life expectancy: 67.1; density per sq
mi: 22
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Moscow, 11,970,500 (metro. area),
8,368,200 (city proper)
Other large cities: St. Petersburg,
4,582,300; Novosibirsk, 1,395,500;
Nizhny Novgorod, 1,340,900;
Yekaterinburg, 1,256,600; Samara,
1,146,800; Kazan, 1,113,600; Ufa,
1,096,600; Chelyabinsk, 1,080,000;
Perm, 998,800; Volgograd, 984,200
Monetary unit: Ruble
Languages: Russian, others
Ethnicity/race: Russian 81.5%, Tatar
3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%,
Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%,
Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989)
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Islam,
others
Literacy rate: 100% (2003 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $1.408 trillion; per capita $9,800.
Real growth rate: 6.7%. Inflation:
11.5%. Unemployment: 8.3%, plus
considerable underemployment.
Arable land: 7%. Agriculture: grain,
sugar beets, sunflower seed,
vegetables, fruits; beef, milk. Labor
force: 71.83 million; agriculture 12.3%,
industry 22.7%, services 65% (2002
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; defense industries including
radar, missile production, and
advanced electronic components,
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. 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. Exports: $162.5 billion
(2004 est.): petroleum and petroleum
products, natural gas, wood and wood
products, metals, chemicals, and a
wide variety of civilian and military
manufactures. Imports: $92.91 billion
(2004 est.): machinery and equipment,
consumer goods, medicines, meat,
sugar, semifinished metal products.
Major trading partners: Germany,
Netherlands, Italy, China, Belarus,
Ukraine, U.S., Switzerland,
Kazakhstan, France (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 30 million (1998); mobile
cellular: 19 million (January 2003).
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 Service Providers (ISPs): 300
(June 2000). Internet users: 18 million
(2002).
Transportation: Railways: total: 87,157
km (2002). Highways: total: 532,393
km; paved: 358,833 km; unpaved:
173,560 km (2000). Waterways:
95,900 km (total routes in general use)
(Jan. 1994). Ports and harbors:
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky,
Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri,
Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha,
Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk,
Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen',
Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka,
Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega,
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov,
Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi,
Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino,
Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy,
Vyborg. Airports: 2,743 (2002).
International disputes: China continues
to seek a mutually acceptable solution
to the disputed alluvial islands at the
confluence of the Amur and Ussuri
rivers and a small island on the Argun
River as part of the 2001 Treaty of
Good Neighborliness, Friendship, and
Cooperation; the islands of Etorofu,
Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai
group identified by the Russians as the
“Southern Kurils” and by Japan as the
“Northern Territories” occupied by the
Soviet Union in 1945, now
administered by Russia, claimed by
Japan; boundary with Georgia has
been largely delimited but not
demarcated with several small,
strategic segments remaining in
dispute and OSCE observers
monitoring volatile areas such as the
Pankisi Gorge in the Akhmeti region
and the Argun Gorge in Abkhazia;
equidistant seabed treaties have been
signed with Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea but no
resolution on dividing the water column
among any of the littoral states; Russia
and Norway dispute their maritime
limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's
fishing rights beyond Svalbard's
territorial limits within the Svalbard
Treaty zone; Russia continues to reject
signing and ratifying the joint 1996
technical border agreement with
Estonia; the Russian Parliament
refuses to consider ratification of the
boundary treaties with Estonia and
Latvia, but in May 2003, ratified land
and maritime boundary treaty with
Lithuania, which ratified the 1997
treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of
former Soviet republic borders;
discussions are still ongoing among
Russia, Lithuania and the EU
concerning a simplified transit
document for residents of the
Kaliningrad coastal exclave to transit
through Lithuania to Russia; land
delimitation with Ukraine is ratified, but
maritime regime of the Sea of Azov
and Kerch Strait is unresolved;
delimitation with Kazakhstan is
scheduled for completion in 2003;
Russian Duma has not yet ratified
1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement
with the US in the Bering Sea.
Russian Federation
National name: Rossiyskaya
Federatsiya
President: Vladimir Putin (2000)
Prime Minister: Mikhail Fradkov (2004)
Area: 6,592,735 sq mi (17,075,200 sq
km)
Population (2005 est.): 143,420,309
(growth rate: –0.4%); birth rate: 9.8
/1000; infant mortality rate: 15.4/1000;
life expectancy: 67.1; density per sq
mi: 22
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Moscow, 11,970,500 (metro. area),
8,368,200 (city proper)
Other large cities: St. Petersburg,
4,582,300; Novosibirsk, 1,395,500;
Nizhny Novgorod, 1,340,900;
Yekaterinburg, 1,256,600; Samara,
1,146,800; Kazan, 1,113,600; Ufa,
1,096,600; Chelyabinsk, 1,080,000;
Perm, 998,800; Volgograd, 984,200
Monetary unit: Ruble
Languages: Russian, others
Ethnicity/race: Russian 81.5%, Tatar
3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%,
Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%,
Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989)
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Islam,
others
Literacy rate: 100% (2003 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $1.408 trillion; per capita $9,800.
Real growth rate: 6.7%. Inflation:
11.5%. Unemployment: 8.3%, plus
considerable underemployment.
Arable land: 7%. Agriculture: grain,
sugar beets, sunflower seed,
vegetables, fruits; beef, milk. Labor
force: 71.83 million; agriculture 12.3%,
industry 22.7%, services 65% (2002
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; defense industries including
radar, missile production, and
advanced electronic components,
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. 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. Exports: $162.5 billion
(2004 est.): petroleum and petroleum
products, natural gas, wood and wood
products, metals, chemicals, and a
wide variety of civilian and military
manufactures. Imports: $92.91 billion
(2004 est.): machinery and equipment,
consumer goods, medicines, meat,
sugar, semifinished metal products.
Major trading partners: Germany,
Netherlands, Italy, China, Belarus,
Ukraine, U.S., Switzerland,
Kazakhstan, France (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 30 million (1998); mobile
cellular: 19 million (January 2003).
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 Service Providers (ISPs): 300
(June 2000). Internet users: 18 million
(2002).
Transportation: Railways: total: 87,157
km (2002). Highways: total: 532,393
km; paved: 358,833 km; unpaved:
173,560 km (2000). Waterways:
95,900 km (total routes in general use)
(Jan. 1994). Ports and harbors:
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky,
Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri,
Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha,
Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk,
Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen',
Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka,
Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega,
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov,
Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi,
Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino,
Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy,
Vyborg. Airports: 2,743 (2002).
International disputes: China continues
to seek a mutually acceptable solution
to the disputed alluvial islands at the
confluence of the Amur and Ussuri
rivers and a small island on the Argun
River as part of the 2001 Treaty of
Good Neighborliness, Friendship, and
Cooperation; the islands of Etorofu,
Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai
group identified by the Russians as the
“Southern Kurils” and by Japan as the
“Northern Territories” occupied by the
Soviet Union in 1945, now
administered by Russia, claimed by
Japan; boundary with Georgia has
been largely delimited but not
demarcated with several small,
strategic segments remaining in
dispute and OSCE observers
monitoring volatile areas such as the
Pankisi Gorge in the Akhmeti region
and the Argun Gorge in Abkhazia;
equidistant seabed treaties have been
signed with Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea but no
resolution on dividing the water column
among any of the littoral states; Russia
and Norway dispute their maritime
limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's
fishing rights beyond Svalbard's
territorial limits within the Svalbard
Treaty zone; Russia continues to reject
signing and ratifying the joint 1996
technical border agreement with
Estonia; the Russian Parliament
refuses to consider ratification of the
boundary treaties with Estonia and
Latvia, but in May 2003, ratified land
and maritime boundary treaty with
Lithuania, which ratified the 1997
treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of
former Soviet republic borders;
discussions are still ongoing among
Russia, Lithuania and the EU
concerning a simplified transit
document for residents of the
Kaliningrad coastal exclave to transit
through Lithuania to Russia; land
delimitation with Ukraine is ratified, but
maritime regime of the Sea of Azov
and Kerch Strait is unresolved;
delimitation with Kazakhstan is
scheduled for completion in 2003;
Russian Duma has not yet ratified
1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement
with the US in the Bering Sea.
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