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President |
Vladimir Putin (2000) |
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Prime Minister |
Mikhail Fradkov (2004) |
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Area |
6,592,735 sq mi (17,075,200 sq km) |
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Population (2004 est.) |
143,782,3383 (growth rate: –0.5%); birth rate:
9.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 17.0/1000; life expectancy: 66.4;
density per sq mi: 22 |
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Capital and largest city (2003 est.): |
Moscow, 11,970,500 (metro. area), 8,368,200
(city proper) |
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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 |
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Monetary unit |
Ruble |
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Languages |
Russian, others |
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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 |
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Religions |
Russian Orthodox, Islam, others |
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Literacy rate |
100% (2003 est.) |
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Economic summary |
GDP/PPP (2003 est.): $1.287 trillion;
per capita $8,900. Real growth rate: 7.3%. Inflation:
12%. Unemployment: 8.4%, plus considerable underemployment. |
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Arable land |
7%. Agriculture: grain, sugar beets,
sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk. Labor force:
71.5 million; agriculture 12.3%, industry 22.7%, services 65%. |
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Industries: |
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 |
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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. |
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Major trading partners |
Germany, Italy, Netherlands, China, U.S.,
Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, France |
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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). |
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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). |
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