Russia

Official Name:

Russian Federation (Russia)

Area:

17.075.200 km ²

Population (2007):

141.377.752 inhabitants

Coastline:

37.653 km

Capital:

Moscow

Maritime Ports and terminals:

Anapa, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Rostov-na-Donu, Saint Petersburg, Taganrog, Vanino, Vostochnyy

Maritime claims:

• Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Contiguous zone: 24 nm
• Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Political divisions:

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') oblasts: Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan', Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chuvashiya (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya (Magas), Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik), Kalmykiya (Elista), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk), Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Khakasiya (Abakan), Komi (Syktyvkar), Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya (Saransk), North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz), Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), Tatarstan (Kazan'), Tyva (Kyzyl), Udmurtiya (Izhevsk) autonomous okrugs: Aga Buryat (Aginskoye), Chukotka (Anadyr'), Khanty-Mansi, Koryak (Palana), Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar), Ust'-Orda Buryat (Ust'-Ordynskiy), Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard) krays: Altay (Barnaul), Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Permskiy, Primorskiy (Vladivostok), Stavropol' federal cities: Moscow (Moskva), Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) autonomous oblast: Yevrey [Jewish] (Birobidzhan) note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

Language(s):

Russian, many minority languages

National holiday:

Russia Day, 12 June (1990)

Nationality:

Russian(s)

Official time:

UTC 3. Daylight saving time: 1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October Note: Russia is divided into 11 time zones

Member of:

APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, BSEC, CBSS, CE, CERN (observer), CIS, EAEC, EAPC, EBRD, G- 8, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM (guest), NSG, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), ONUB, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, SCO, UN, UN Security Council, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOVIC, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer), ZC

Internet country code:

.ru

Economic Profile

Currency:

Russian ruble (RUR)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

USD12.200 (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

(2006 est.) USD 733.600.000.000

PIB (Real growth rate:

6,7% (2006 est.)

GDP (Composition by sector): (2006 est.)

• Agriculture: 5,3%
• Industry: 36,6%
• Services: 36,6%

Labor force:

73.880.000 (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation (2005):

• Agriculture 10,8%
• Industry: 29,1%
• Services 60,1%

Unemployment rate:

6,6% (2006 est.)

Inflation rate (Consumer prices):

9,8% (2006 est)

Investment (Gross Fixed):

18,2% del PIB (2006 est.)

Budget:

• Revenues: USD222.200.000.000
• Expenditures: USD157.300.000.000

Public debt:

8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Current account balance:

USD 105.300.000.000 (2006 est.)

Exports:

USD 317.600.000.000 FOB (2006 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:

Netherlands 10,3%, Germany 8,3%, Italy 7,9%, China 5,5%, Ukraine 5,2%, Turkey 4,5%, Switzerland 4,4% (2005)

Imports:

USD 171.500.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)

Imports - Commodities:

Machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar, semifinished metal products

Imports - partners:

Germany 13,6%, Ukraine 8%, China 7,4%, Japan 6%, Belarus 4,7%, US 4,7%, Italy 4,6%, South Korea 4,1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

USD 314.500.000.000 (2006 est.)

Debt - external:

USD 287.400.000.000 (2006)