Russia has an upper-middle income mixed economy with state ownership in strategic areas of the economy. Market reforms in the 1990s privatized much of Russian industry and agriculture, with notable exceptions to this privatization occurring in the energy and defense-related sectors.
Russia Table of Contents. Russia has an entrenched, albeit underfunded, system of socialized medicine. Basic medical care is available to most of the population free of cost, but its quality is extremely low by Western standards, and in the mid-1990s the efficiency of the system continued the decline that had begun before the collapse of the
The history of the Advanced Crew Transportation System, ACTS, program.
Only the US and Estonia are meeting NATO’s defense budget goals
The latest round of US penalties targeting Russian businesses paradoxically helps the country’s budget instead of harming it, said Konstantin Korischenko, former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).
More information about Russia is available on the Russia Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.. U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS
On December 15, 2014, answering questions from journalists at the end of an annual press-conference, the head of Roskosmos, Oleg Ostapenko said that the agency had been considering options for the development of the High-Latitude Orbital Station, also known by its Russian abbreviation as VShOS.
By September 2016, the Internet Research Agency in Russia had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million to carry out an influence campaign in the US.