Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood
products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and
military manufactures
Exports - partners:
Germany 7.8%, Netherlands 6.5%, Italy 6.3%, China 6.2%, Belarus
5.7%, Ukraine 5.7%, US 4.6%, Switzerland 4.4% (2003)
Imports:
$74.8 billion (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar,
semifinished metal products
Imports - partners:
Germany 14%, Belarus 8.6%, Ukraine 7.7%, China 5.8%, US 5.2%,
Kazakhstan 4.7%, Italy 4.2%, France 4.1% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$76.94 billion (2003)
Debt - external:
$175.9 billion (2003)
Economic aid - recipient:
in FY01 from US, $979 million (including $750 million in
non-proliferation subsidies); in 2001 from EU, $200 million (2000
est.)
Currency:
Russian ruble (RUR)
Currency code:
RUR