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: Elena Trofimova Author-Name-First: Elena Author-Name-Last: Trofimova 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:Military Economy and the Military Reform in Russia in 2011 Abstract:The transition to “a new image” of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation that started back in 2008 and continued through 2011 was clearly planned, as the Russian top military leaders affirmed. In practice, however, these plans proved to be “unbaked” and required online corrections and removal of deficiencies. This paper deals with the acute issues of the Russian Military Reform throughout 2011. Creation-Date: 2012 Revision-Date: 2012 File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0035Zatsepin.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Classification-JEL: D74, F52, F53, H56 Keywords: military reform, Russian Federation, conscription, defence policy Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0035