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Originally posted by VeriSexy
Russia is the second biggest military spender in the world after USA. Not to mention that a US dollar goes much further in Russia. These are old stats BTW. Putin has increase military spending much more. I am sure they can put a few planes in the sky if they had to.
Updated March 19, 2003
United States 399.1
Russia* 65.0
China* 47.0
Japan 42.6
United Kingdom 38.4
France 29.5
Germany 24.9
Saudi Arabia 21.3
Italy 19.4
India 15.6
http://www.cdi.org/budget/2004/world...y-spending.cfm
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This info is from the open sources... Only during this year Putin has increased the military budget on
who knows %... Let's see what will happen in the next 4-5 years... Drunk Eltzin-Clinton "friendship" times were passed.