In Runet, I found much more optimistic figures (about $ 39 billion), however here the figure is called exactly about 7 billion dollars. Spending on civilian science in 2000 was approximately $800 million (17 billion rubles at the exchange rate of those years), in 2020 it is about $7 billion. Around 2011, we reached a plateau, and further increases in costs are expressed in rubles (with a falling exchange rate). PPP GDP was already mentioned above for 2000 - for 2020 it is $ 4 billion.Дefense spending in 2000: ~ $ 6 billion, in 2020 - $ 61,7 billion (excluding hidden budget items). If we seriously consider the available statistics, then everything is just devilishly stable with us. However, who is interested - look for yourself, this is still open data. Given the extremely interesting leaps in statistics, I have some skepticism about its compliance, let's say. The UN predicts that we will have ~2030 million by 140, and about 2050 million by 132. The population of the Russian Federation in 2000 - 146 890 128 people, in 2020 - 146 748 590 people. In this article, I would like to consider what we are as a state at the moment, and what are our neighbors, if possible in some dynamics.ДЇrom this picture, it will be generally clear the scale of the challenges and the correspondence of what we have at the moment to these challenges. It is for this reason, forgive me generously, but I have every right to consider those successes to the greatest extent by the successes of Russia. This does not mean that the rest of the EU is standing with candles, but, again, it is clear who the key flagship is.Д«y this analogy, I think it should be clear who was a key flagship of the USSR, a state without which the USSR would not have taken place as a superpower.

We say EU and mean 'Germany - France' - also as the main contributors and organizers. And this does not cause dissonance - everyone understands that without the United States there would be no NATO. Readers can appeal to the fact that 9 years have passed and there were not the best times, but everything indicates that in the worst case, the above republics would collectively invest in the common cause at most a third of what the Russian Federation alone invested.ДЄnd finally - here we are now talking about NATO, but we mean the United States as the main a NATO contributor and organizer. These numbers about show a comparison of economic ability - I need them solely in order to very to rudely demonstrate the frankly incomparable power of Russia in the post-Soviet space relative to the strongest republics and their totality. RF - 1 (the number 635,3 also appears) billion dollars. That is, even the simplest comparison is enough for there to be no particular doubts about the dominant role of Russia within the Union in all respects.Дue to the strong degree of cooperation, it is incorrect to estimate the difference in the economic contribution of the republics to the common Soviet piggy bank, so I turned (although this may seem like an unsuccessful example to someone) to compare GDP for 2000 in dollar terms (according to PPP). It all started with the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Socialist Republic), which 'by eye' occupied about 2/3 of the USSR, the population of the Russian Federation at the time of the collapse of the USSR was slightly more than half of the population of the Union, the total population of Ukraine-Belarus-Kazakhstan by that time was slightly less than half population of the Russian Federation.

Some readers were sincerely perplexed - for what reason did I write down the successes of the USSR in the successes of Russia?ДЇor the very reason that the USSR itself as a whole was a Russian project. With this article, I open a cycle of four articles, which will consider the relationship between our dynamics / capabilities with the dynamics / capabilities of our neighbors (the first two parts), in the third article I will outline the approximate parameters of the values вЂ‹вЂ‹we need in the 21st century to preserve and strengthen our role, in the fourth article, I want to reflect on how we can get there.ДЇirst of all, I would very much like to clarify a point to which, judging by the comments, I have not paid enough attention in his last article.

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