Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Vasily Zatsepin Author-Name-First: Vasily Author-Name-Last: Zatsepin Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Vitaly Tsymbal Author-Name-First: Vitaly Author-Name-Last: Tsymbal Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: The Military Economy and a New Stage of the Russian Military Reform Abstract: The 2008 military and economic processes in RF have found themselves affected by changes in the nation’s military and political leadership – the new Supreme Commander-in-Chief, new faces on key positions in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. A new stage of the military reform that started in 2007 was pursued more vehemently, which can partly be attributed to the events in the Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia. Length: 10446 words Creation-Date: 2009 Revision-Date: 2012 Publication-Status: Published in Russian Economy in 2008, Trends and Outlooks, issue 30 File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/36Zatsepin.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Classification-JEL: P16, Y80 Keywords: military economy, military reform, Russian economy Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:36