Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
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May 25, 2022
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Russian Armed Forces, were established by order of Boris Yeltsin on May 7, 1992, which established the Russian Ministry of Defense and subordinated Soviet armed forces in Russia. The number of active Armed Forces - 771 thousand people (4th in the world). Military reserves amount to about 2 million people, in the paramilitary formations are 359,100 people. The total number of servicemen is 3,396,100 (8th in the world). The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is the President of the Russian Federation (currently Vladimir Putin). In Russia, there is a general conscription for men 18-27 years with a service life of 1 year. It was planned to increase the number of contract soldiers to 70% in 2010. Russia's military budget for 2008 was 956 billion rubles ($ 36.8 billion in 2008 prices). In 2010 it amounted to 1 trillion. 320 billion rubles ($ 52 billion in 2010 prices). In 2012, it was planned about 1 trillion. 540 billion rubles ($ 64 billion in 2012 prices). On November 17, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree № 555 "On Establishing the Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", which sets the number of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at 1,902,758 units, including 1,013,628 servicemen. The decree comes into force on January 1, 2018.