aspian Sea, Sea of Azov, and Black Sea (2006)

Merchant marine:

total: 1,074
by type: bulk carrier 25, cargo 663, carrier 2, chemical tanker 27,
combination ore/oil 34, container 11, passenger 14, passenger/cargo
7, petroleum tanker 217, refrigerated cargo 59, roll on/roll off 10,
specialized tanker 5
foreign-owned: 112 (Belgium 4, Cyprus 2, Germany 1, Greece 1, Italy
4, South Korea 1, Latvia 2, Norway 2, Switzerland 3, Turkey 80,
Ukraine 11, US 1)
registered in other countries: 486 (Antigua and Barbuda 4, Bahamas
4, Belize 31, Bulgaria 1, Cambodia 83, Comoros 12, Cyprus 50,
Dominica 3, Georgia 12, Hong Kong 2, Jamaica 3, Liberia 94, Malaysia
2, Malta 58, Marshall Islands 9, Moldova 3, Mongolia 9, Panama 18,
Saint Kitts and Nevis 19, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 21,
Sierra Leone 11, Slovakia 1, Tuvalu 2, Ukraine 1, Vanuatu 2, unknown
31) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Azov, Kaliningrad, Kavkaz, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Primorsk, Saint
Petersburg, Vostochnyy

Military
Russia

Military branches:

Ground Forces (SV), Navy (VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye
Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (VDV), Strategic Rocket Troops
(Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN), and Space
Troops (KV) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of
the three branches; Russian Ground Forces include the following
combat arms: motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and
artillery troops, air defense of ground troops (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service;
males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; service
obligation - 1 year; reserve obligation to age 50; as of July 2008,
a draft military strategy called for the draft to continue up to the
year 2030 (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 36,219,908
females age 16-49: 37,019,853 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 21,488,878
females age 16-49: 28,760,976 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 821,103
female: 781,570 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.9% of GDP (2005)

Transnational Issues
Russia

Disputes - international:

China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the
Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with
the 2004 Agreement, ending their centuries-long border disputes; the
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