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against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of<br />

2003 and the acquisition of the company by a state owned firm, have raised concerns by<br />

some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his<br />

government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. State control has<br />

increased in the past year with a number of large acquisitions. Most fundamentally,<br />

Russia has made little progress in building the rule of law, the bedrock of a modern<br />

market economy.<br />

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Population: 15,233,244 (July 2006 est.)<br />

Age structure:<br />

0-14 years: 23% (male 1,792,685/female 1,717,294)<br />

15-64 years: 68.8% (male 5,122,027/female 5,357,819)<br />

65 years and over: 8.2% (male 438,541/female 804,878) (2006 est.)<br />

GDP<br />

GDP - purchasing power parity - 128.9 billion USD<br />

GDP - official exchange rate - 56.08 billion USD<br />

GDP - per capita (PPP) - 7,730 USD<br />

public debt - 10.5% of GDP<br />

population below poverty line - 19 %<br />

Budget – gov. (2005)<br />

Revenues: 12.19 billion USD<br />

Expenditures: 12.44 billion billion USD<br />

Inflation rate 7,6 %<br />

Unemployment rate 8.1% (2005)<br />

Administrative divisions: 14 provinces (oblystar, singular - oblys) and 3 cities* (qala,<br />

singular - qalasy); Almaty Oblysy, Almaty Qalasy*, Aqmola Oblysy (Astana), Aqtobe<br />

Oblysy, Astana Qalasy*, Atyrau Oblysy, Batys Qazaqstan Oblysy (Oral), Bayqongyr<br />

Qalasy*, Mangghystau Oblysy (Aqtau), Ongtustik Qazaqstan Oblysy (Shymkent),<br />

Pavlodar Oblysy, Qaraghandy Oblysy, Qostanay Oblysy, Qyzylorda Oblysy, Shyghys<br />

Qazaqstan Oblysy (Oskemen), Soltustik Qazaqstan Oblysy (Petropavlovsk), Zhambyl<br />

Oblysy (Taraz), note: administrative divisions have the same names as their<br />

administrative centers (the exceptions have the administrative center name following in<br />

parentheses); in 1995, the Governments of Kazakhstan and Russia entered into an<br />

agreement whereby Russia would lease for a period of 20 years an area of 6,000 sq km<br />

enclosing the Baykonur space launch facilities and the city of Bayqongyr (Baykonur,<br />

formerly Leninsk); in 2004 a new agreement extended the lease to 2050.

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