r - availability: males age 15-49: 38,906,796 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 30,392,946
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 1,242,778
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $NA

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues Russia

Disputes - international: 2001 Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship,
and Cooperation commits Russia and China to seek peaceable unanimity
over disputed alluvial islands at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri
rivers and a small island on the Argun; Russia hastens to delimit and
demarcate boundary with Kazakhstan to limit illegal border activities;
in 2002, Russia is the first state to submit data to the UN Commission
on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend its continental shelf
by claiming two undersea ridges in the Arctic; Russia signed bilateral
agreements with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan delimiting the Caspian seabed,
but littoral states are far from multilateral agreement on dividing
the waters and seabed regimes - Iran insists on division of Caspian
Sea into five equal sectors while Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and
Turkmenistan have generally agreed upon equidistant seabed boundaries;
despite recent discussions, Russia and Norway dispute their maritime
limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's
territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone; Russia continues
to reject signing and ratifying the joint December 1996 technical
border agreement with Estonia; the Russian Duma refuses to ratify
boundary treaties signed with Latvia and Lithuania; Russia and Ukraine
have successfully delimited land boundary in 2001, but disagree on
delimitation of maritime boundary in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea;
boundary with Georgia has been largely delimited, but not demarcated;
several small, strategic segments remain in dispute; islands of Etorofu,
Kunashiri, and Shikotan, and the Habomai group occupied by the Soviet
Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, claimed by Japan

Illicit drugs: limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy
and producer of amphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government
has active eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment
point for Southwest and Southeast Asian opiates and cannabis and Latin
American cocaine to Western Europe, possibly to the US, and growing
domestic ma