Military Economy and Military Reform in Russia

11 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2018

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Vasily Zatsepin

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Vitaly Tsymbal

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Date Written: July 13, 2018

Abstract

The number of Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) authorized strength at year-end 2017 increased 17,387 to 1,903,758 on the back of disbandment of the Federal Special Construction Agency (Spetsstroy); therefore, the RFAF’s total authorized strength rose to 1,013,628 from 1 million. That was the first time when data on RFAF’s authorized war strength (1,700,000) were published by mass media, posting a substantial decrease from 5 million reported prior to the military reform of 2008-2012. The Russian Defense Ministry did not publish 2017 year-end service personnel statistics like it did in previous years; therefore, the total accountable strength presumably decreased to 240,000 from previous year’s 270,000 as a result of a 35,000 (13 percent) decline in the number of conscript personnel. Overall, the 2017 total number of conscript personnel inflow stood at 276,000, or 31,000 (10 percent) less than in 2016.

Keywords: Russian economy, military-industrial complex, military reform

JEL Classification: D74, F52, H51, H56

Suggested Citation

Zatsepin, Vasily and Tsymbal, Vitaly, Military Economy and Military Reform in Russia (July 13, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3213288 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3213288

Vasily Zatsepin (Contact Author)

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy ( email )

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Vitaly Tsymbal

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy ( email )

3-5 Gazetny Lane
Moscow, 125009
Russia

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