Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:Zatsepin Vasily
Author-Name-First: Vasily 
Author-Name-Last:Zatsepin 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name:Tsymbal Vitaly
Author-Name-First: Vitaly 
Author-Name-Last:Tsymbal 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: Military economy and military reform in Russia
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.[1] 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 .  
Classification-JEL: D74, F52, H56, F51, 
Keywords:  Russian economy, military-industrial complex, military reform, defense order, military procurement, defense control
Creation-Date: 2018
Revision-Date:2018
Length: 11 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2018-316.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2018
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2018-316