Economic Conditions of Present-Day Russia

The contemporary business environment of Russia cannot be understood or appreciated without a concomitant appreciation of the physical characteristics of the country, which are quite complex and diverse. Extending from the Arctic coast to the north, to a series of mountain ranges that form a natural frontier at its southern boundary, the Russian Plain also extends eastward from the eastern boundaries of Scandinavia, the countries of Central Europe, and the Baltic Sea, all the way to the Pacific coast. Because the boundaries of Russia, now commonly referred to as the Russian Federation, appear to be an issue that is not entirely settled in the wake of the fall of the Soviet system, it may be useful to look first at how the U.S.S.R., which for most of the twentieth century included some 89 political administrative divisions, some of which since 1991 have achieved or are in process of achieving political independence, has historically been configured. The western topography of the Russian Plain, which is traditionally considered to contain Russia proper as well as the fifteen constituent republics, "is a continuation of the West European Plain and is d

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btaining additional Russian access to international credit markets on one hand and, more specifically, help from the West in meeting its military payrolls, which have been seriously in arrears in the 1990s (Lelyveld 1). A contrarian view has also begun to emerge in political terms, with concerns expressed at the potential impasse of American support for Taiwan against the PRC and recurrent waves of Russian ultranationalism, with the Islamic resurgence an additional complication (Woollacott 22). The last-named case suggests that reform and progress in the Russian case may be at least fragile and at worst tending toward crisis. II. Business Russia's trading partners can be found in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The situation is summarized by the U.S. Department of Commerce as follows: The U.S. is reportedly Russia's third largest trading partner after Ukraine and Germany. Fuel and energy exports continue to account for approximately one-half of total Russian exports abroad. Coal, iron ore and timber, in that order, are the next most prominent Russian exports to foreign markets. Russia's chief export market is Germany, which imports nearly twice as much as the next largest importer of Russian goods, China. Italy, the United K
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