dled by a
system of satellites, landlines, microwave radio relay, and outdated
submarine cables; much of this traffic passes through the
international gateway switch in Moscow which carries most of the
international traffic for the other countries of the Commonwealth of
Independent States; a new Russian Intersputnik satellite will link
Moscow and St. Petersburg with Rome from whence calls will be
relayed to destinations in Europe and overseas; satellite earth
stations - NA Intelsat, 4 Intersputnik (2 Atlantic Ocean Region and
2 Indian Ocean Region), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat (Pacific Ocean
Region), and NA Orbita

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA; note - there
are about 1,050 (including AM, FM, and shortwave) radio broadcast
stations throughout the country

Radios: 50 million (1993 est.)(radio receivers with multiple
speaker systems for program diffusion 74,300,000)

Television broadcast stations: 7,183

Televisions: 54.85 million (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Ground Forces, Navy, Air Forces, Air Defense Forces,
Strategic Rocket Forces

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 38,673,991
males fit for military service: 30,224,738
males reach military age (18) annually: 1,105,004 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
note: the Intelligence Community estimates that defense spending in
Russia fell by about 20% in real terms in 1995, reducing Russian
defense outlays to about one-fifth of peak Soviet levels in the late
1980s

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@Rwanda
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Map
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Location: 2 00 S, 30 00 E -- Central Africa, east of Zaire

Flag
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Description: three equal vertical bands of red (hoist side),
yellow, and green with a large black letter R centered in the yellow
band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia; similar to
the flag of Guinea, which has a plain yellow band

Geography
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Location: Central Africa, east of Zaire

Geographic coordinates: 2 00 S, 30 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 26,340 sq km
land area: 24,950 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maryland

Land boundaries:
total: 893 km
border countries: Burundi 290 km, Tanzania 217 km, Uganda 169 km,
Zaire 217 km

Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

Maritime claims: none (landlocked)

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