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Armed forces growth	-71		[127th of 132]
Armed forces personnel	1,520,000		[2nd of 166]
Branches Ground Forces (SV), Navy (VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (VDV), Strategic Rocket Troops (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN), and Space Troops (KV) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the three branches; Russian Ground Forces include the following combat arms: motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and artillery troops, air defense of ground troops
Conscription Conscription exists (AI).
Conventional arms exports	$6,197,000,000.00		[1st of 40]
expenditure > % of GDP	3.74 %		[13th of 145]
Exports to developing nations	$19,940.00 million		[4th of 7]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft	2,358		[2nd of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks	4,982		[2nd of 24]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49	36,000,000		[8th of 175]
Military Capabilities > Active Troops	1,037,000		[5th of 10]
Military Capabilities > Defense Budget	$40,300,000,000.00		[3rd of 10]
Military Capabilities > Tanks	22,950		[1st of 10]
personnel	1,452,000		[4th of 170]
Service age and obligation 18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; service obligation - 1 year; reserve obligation to age 50; as of July 2008, a draft military strategy called for the draft to continue up to the year 2030
Tanks	21,000 tanks		[1st of 22]
WMD > Nuclear The Soviet nuclear weapon program began during World War II and culminated in a successful atomic bomb test in 1949. Russia, as the successor of the Soviet Union, is a nuclear weapon state party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). According to estimates by the Natural Resources Defense Council, by 1991, the Soviet Union had approximately 35,000 weapons in its stockpile, down from a peak in 1986 of approximately 45,000. Russia is estimated to now have around 20,000 nuclear weapons, although total stockpile size is uncertain because there is no accurate count of tactical nuclear weapons. However, in 2002 Russia declared it will eliminate its tactical nuclear weapons by the end of 2004. Under the START I Treaty, the Russian nuclear arsenal has been reduced to approximately 7,000 strategic warheads. The START II Treaty, which was declared non-binding in June 2002, would have reduced this number to between 3,000 and 3,500 strategic nuclear warheads. The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (Treaty of Moscow) requires Russia to reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 by the end of 2012. Russia inherited a massive nuclear weapons production complex and large stocks of weapons grade fissile material. It is estimated that Russia has between 735 and 1,365 metric tons (t) of weapons grade-equivalent highly enriched uranium (HEU) and between 106 and 156 t of military-use plutonium.
WWII > Jew killed	107,000		[4th of 14]
WWII > Jewish population before war	975,000		[2nd of 16]
WWII > Percent of Jew killed	11		[14th of 14]

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