Russia

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Russia

• Group 4 Tiona Furin, Matt Dugdale, Maria Perez,
  and Jared Schrum
• Vital Statistics
• Political Issues
• Industry
• Culture

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Russia
U.S.S.R. Russia Population 289
million Population 144 million Area 22.4
million km2 Area 17 million km2
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Social Factors

• Russia United States
• Population 144 million 290
• Growth Rate -0.3 0.92
• Life Expectancy 67.66 77.14
• Infant mortality 19.51/1000 6.75/1000
• Literacy rate 99.6 97

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Infrastructure

• Russia United States
• Area 17,075,200 km2 9,629,091 km2
• Exports (billions) 104.6 687
• Imports 60.7 billion 1.165 trillion
• Economy
• Agriculture 5.8 2
• Industry 34.6 18
• Services 59.6 80

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Economic Factors

• Russia United States
• GDP 1.35 trillion 10.4 trillion
• GDP per capita 9,300 37,600
• GDP growth rate 4.2 2.45
• Index of Economic 135th 6th
• Freedom Rank
• Corruption Rank 71st 16th

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Political Conditions
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The Fall of the USSR

• June 12, 1991
• 1st Presidential Election
• Boris Yeltsin elected
• Russian Independence Day

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The Fall of the USSR

• December 1991
• CPSU formally dismantled
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
• Loosely organized
• Gorbachev resigns as President of USSR
• Soviet Union ceases to exist

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1992 1995 Political Unrest

• 11 of 15 former Soviet Republics join CIS
• Communists challenge Yeltsin
• Yeltsin dissolves parliament in 1993
• New parliament
• New constitution

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New Constitution

• Pros
• Democratic federal state
• Mirrors U.S. Bill of Rights
• Private Property
• Freedom of speech and religion
• Protection from illegal search and seizure

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New Constitution

• Cons
• Lacks checks and balances
• More power given to the President
• Control Parliament
• Power to dissolve the legislative body

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1996 2000

• Yeltsin is re-elected in 1996
• Begins to get ill
• Politics are turbulent and unstable
• Resigns on December 31, 1999

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Vladimir Putin

• Elected on March 26, 2000
• Continues to stamp out communist ties
• Anti-terror laws
• WTO
• Support of the people

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Political Structure

• Executive Branch
• President at the head
• Head of government
• Legislative Branch
• Federation Council
• State Duma

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Political Structure

• Judicial Branch
• Constitutional Court
• Supreme Court
• Superior Court of Arbitration

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Political Parties

• 50 Political Parties Registered
• Two opposing trends
• Weakening party structure
• Pressure from fed to create party structure
• New mixed proportional-majority system

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Russian Industry
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4 Famous Industries

• Space and Technology
• Nuclear
• Oil
• Vodka

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SPACE

• Sputnik-1957

Alive and Well Last few years, Russia just
trailing behind US in launches of space vehicles
(ie. satellites) by only 13-14
http//www.russianspaceweb.com
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Nuclear
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Nuclear

• Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
• Prone to Contention
• Churnobyl-NobodyKnew
• K-19
• Regulated by government
• 2002-Putin signed law On Environment Protection

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Nuclear
Hot News!! Earlier this year Russia organized a
buy back of used Iranian Uranium for storage and
use.
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Oil

• Biggest Player-Yukos
• Market Value of 36 Billion Dollars
• 4 in world production

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Oil

• Major conflict with Yukos-Index down 15
• Mikhail Kordorkovsky-CEO of Yukos Jailed
• The battle between the government and the Yukos
  chief, who had offended Russian President
  Vladimir Putin with his increasingly brazen
  political ambitions, has disrupted one of the
  greatest market turnarounds.

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Oil

• "Putin's action, which is so transparently
  political and punitive in nature against a
  private company ... really suggests that Russia
  isn't ready for membership in an organization of
  advanced industrial economies.
• -Richard Perle, neo-conservative guru

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Vodka

• Advanced by 2.2 in first quarter of 2003

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Culture

• Some people live like sheeps, just consuming
  from day to day what is given to them, without
  caring to question the reality that they impose
  on themselves. Some people, who are more
  intelligent, live questioning reality around
  them, exploring it, and expanding it.
• -Nikolay
• http//www.waytorussia.net/Features/RussianP
  eople/2003Sept17/

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Culture

• The People
• Older generation
• Pessimistic
• Lost without communism

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Culture

• The People
• New Generation
• Optimistic
• Excited to change and innovate

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Culture

• Negative effects
• Falling Birthrates
• Increase in substance abuse
• Income distribution inequalities
• Corruption
• Mafia

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Culture

• Positive effects
• Freedom
• Abundant opportunities
• A bright future for tomorrow?

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Thank you

• We hope we have expanded your knowledge of
  Russia
• Vital Statistics
• Political Issues
• Industry
• Culture