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General Profile Total area 17,098,242 Km2 Population 138,082,178 (July 2012 est.) World Population (in 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Growth Year per billions) year 6,6 6,7 6,7 6,8 6,9 1% Government type Federation Chief of state President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV (since 8 May 2012); First Deputy Premiers Igor Ivanovich SHUVALOV and Viktor Alekseyevich ZUBKOV (since 12 May 2008); Deputy Premiers Aleksandr Gennadiyevich Head of government KHLOPONIN (since 19 January 2010), Dmitriy Nikolayevich KOZAK (since 14 October 2008), Igor Ivanovich SECHIN (since 12 May 2008), Dmitriy Olegovich ROGOZIN (since 23 December 2011), Vladislav Yuryevich SURKOV (since 27 December 2011) Capital Moscow ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar Climate 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 Language Russian Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Major City Novgorod

Economy Profile 2009 2010 2011 World GDP Growth -5% 9% - Russia GDP Growth -7.8% 4.3% 4.3% Profile General

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GDP – Per capita $16,700 agriculture: 4.2% GDP – Composition by industry: 37% sector services : 58.9% Inflation 8.9% Exchanges Rates Russian rubles (RUB) per US dollar -28.35 (2011 est.) Primary Economy natural resources, industry, and agriculture Sector

Unemployment Rate 6.8%

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Ports and Kaliningrad, Kavkaz, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Primorsk, Saint Petersburg, Terminals Vostochnyy International Domodedovo International Airpor, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Airports Vnukovo International Airport, Pulkovo Airport, Koltsovo Airport Vladimir PUTIN elected president; percent of vote - Vladimir PUTIN 63.6%, Election Gennady ZYUGANOV 17.2%, Mikhail PROKHOROV 8%, Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKY results 6.2%, Sergey MIRONOV 3.9%, other 1.1%; Dmitriy MEDVEDEV approved by Duma 299 to 144 Premier Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV First Dep. Premier Igor Ivanovich SHUVALOV Dep. Premier Arkadiy Vladimirovich DVORKOVICH Dep. Premier Olga Yuryevna GOLODETS Dep. Premier Aleksandr Gennadiyevich KHLOPONIN Dep. Premier Dmitriy Nikolayevich KOZAK Dep. Premier Dmitriy Olegovich ROGOZIN Dep. Premier Vladislav Yuryevich SURKOV Min. of Agriculture Nikolay Vasilyevich FEDOROV Min. of Civil Defense, Emergencies, & Natural Disasters Vladimir Andreyevich PUCHKOV Min. of Communications & Mass Media Nikolay Anatolyevich NIKIFOROV Min. of Culture Vladimir Rostislavovich MEDINSKIY Min. of Defense Anatoliy Eduardovich SERDYUKOV Min. of Economic Development Andrey Removich BELOUSOV Min. of Education & Science Dmitriy Viktorovich LIVANOV Min. of Energy Aleksandr Valentinovich NOVAK Min. of Far East Development Viktor Ivanovich ISHAYEV Ministry Name Min. of Finance Anton Germanovich SILUANOV Min. of Foreign Affairs Sergey Viktorovich LAVROV Min. of Health Veronika Igoryevna SKVORTSOVA Min. of Industry & Trade Denis Valentinovich MANTUROV Min. of Internal Affairs Vladimir Aleksandrovich KOLOKOLTSEV Min. of Justice Aleksandr Vladimirovich KONOVALOV Min. of Labor & Social Protection Maksim Anatolyevich TOPILIN Min. of Natural Resources & Ecology Sergey Yefimovich DONSKOY Min. of Regional Development Oleg Markovich GOVORUN Min. of Relations With Open Govt. Mikhail Anatolyevich ABYZOV Min. of Sport

Vitaliy Leontyevich MUTKO Min. of Transportation Maksim Yuryevich SOKOLOV Dir., Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) (Acting) Mikhail Yefimovich FRADKOV Dir., Federal Security Service (FSB) (Acting) Aleksandr Vasilyevich BORTNIKOV Head, Govt. Apparatus Vladislav Yuryevich SURKOV Sec., Security Council Nikolay Platonovich PATRUSHEV Procurator Gen. Yuriy Yakovlevich CHAYKA Terminals Ports and

Chmn., Central Bank of Russia Sergey Mikhaylovich IGNATYEV Chapter: Chapter:

A Just Russia [Sergey MIRONOV]; Communist Party of the Russian Federation or Political CPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or parties and LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Patriots of Russia [Gennadiy leaders SEMIGIN]; Right Cause [Andrey DUNAYEV, acting]; United Russia [Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN]; Yabloko Party [Sergey Sergeyevich MITROKHIN] russia, the largest country in the world has a market based economy which is ranked the twelfth largest in the world. The rapid privatization of the russian industry except for some fields like the energy and the defense domain was Russia witnessed in the 90's economic reforms. And the economy in the country Economy showed a shift from the state controlled one to a market based economy. Due Characteristic to this change of economic set up, the russian economy faced a collapse and s resulted in a big financial crisis in the 1998. But the country stood up higher than ever after managing the crisis very well and ten years after the crisis, russia has reached the "unprecedented macroeconomic stability" as quoted by the World Bank. Rusia 2020 modernization of the national economy, creation of jobs, and growth in both Vision the incomes and living standards of the people in Russia APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, BRICS, BSEC, CBSS, CE, CERN (observer), CICA, CIS, CSTO, EAEC, EAPC, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-8, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, International Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAIA (observer), MIGA, organization MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OECD (accession participation state), OIC (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, SCO, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer), ZC machinery and equipment, chemicals, consumer goods , medicines, meat, Trade Opportunities sugar, and semi-finished metal products 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 Main Industry 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 Industry Type Name of the company UC Rusal Aluminum

Norilsk Nickel Diversified Metal & mining Polyus Gold

Biggest IDGC Holdings Company Electric Utilities RusHydro Federal Grid

Novolipetsk Steel leaders and parties Political Iron And Steel Severstal Mechel

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Sistema JSFC Telecommunication Service Ros Telecom

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