ince 12 June 1991), State Secretary Gennadiy BURBULIS (since July
1991); 1st Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Yegor GAYDAR (since
March 1992), 2nd Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Aleksandr
SHOKHIN (since 7 November 1991)

:Russia Government

Political parties and leaders:
Democratic Russia, A. Lev PONOMAREV and Gleb YAKUNIN, cochairmen; Democratic
Party of Russia, Nikolay TRAVKIN, chairman; People's Party of Free Russia,
Aleksandr RUTSKOY, chairman; Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms,
Gavriil POPOV, chairman
Suffrage:
universal at age 18
Elections:
President:
last held 12 June 1991 (next to be held 1996); results - percent of vote by
party NA%
Congress of People's Deputies:
last held March 1990 (next to be held 1995); results - percent of vote by
party NA%; seats - (1,063 total) number of seats by party NA
Supreme Soviet:
last held May 1990 (next to be held 1995); results - percent of vote by
party NA%; seats - (252 total) number of seats by party NA
Communists:
NA
Other political or pressure groups:
NA
Member of:
CIS, CSCE, ESCAP, ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, IMF, INTERPOL, IMO,
INMARSAT, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, NACC, NSG, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNTSO,
UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZG
Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador LUKIN; Chancery at 1125 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036;
telephone (202) 628-7551
US:
Ambassador Robert S. STRAUSS; Embassy at Ulitsa Chaykovskogo 19/21/23,
Moscow (mailing address is APO AE 09721); telephone [7] (095) 252-2450
through 59; there is a consulate at St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad);
future consulates will be in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok
Flag:
tricolor; three equal bands of white (top), blue, red (bottom)

:Russia Economy

Overview:
Russia, one of the world's largest economies, possesses a wealth of natural
resources and a diverse industrial base. Within the now-dismantled USSR, it
had produced 60% of total output, with 55% of the total labor force and 60%
of the total capital stock. Russia depends on its world-class deposits of
oil and gas not only for its own needs but also for vital hard currency
earnings. Self-sufficient in coal and iron ore, it has a crude steel
production capacity of about 95 million tons, second only to Japan. Russia's
machine-building sector - 60% of the old USSR's