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Russian Federation
President: Vladimir Putin (acting) (1999)
Area: 6,592,800 sq. mi. (17,075,200 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 146,393,569 (average annual rate of natural increase: –0.53%); birth rate: 9.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 23.0/1000; density per sq. mi.: 22
Capital and largest city: Moscow: city proper (1995 est.) 8,368,449; metro. area (1995 est.) 8,598,896
Other large cities: St. Petersburg, 4,232,105; Novosibirsk, 1,418,200; Samara, 1,222,500; Chelyabinsk, 1,124,500; Yekaterinburg, 1,347,000; Nizhny Novgorod, 1,424,600; Kazau, 1,092,300; Perm, 1,086,100; Ufa, 1,091,800; Volgograd, 1,000,400
Monetary unit: Ruble
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, 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%
Languages: Russian, others
Literacy rate: 98%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $593.4 billion; $4,000 per capita. Real growth rate: –5%. Inflation: 84%. Unemployment: 11.5% with considerable additional underemployment . Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk. Labor force: (1997), 66 million. 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; 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: oil, natural gas, coal, strategic minerals, timber. Exports: $71.8 billion (1998 est.): petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures. Imports: $58.5 billion (1998 est.): machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, grain, sugar, semifinished metal products. Major trading partners: Ukraine, Germany, U.S., Belarus, Japan, other Western and less developed countries.
