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Economy
- Russian state budget for 2005
- revenue $177 billion (
- expenditure $126 billion (2005 est.)
- Population below poverty line: 17,8%.
- Unemployment rate: 7.6 % plus considerable underemloyment (2005 est.)
- Price level for foodstuffs at the European level.
- In 2004 the prices for foodstuffs rose by 23 %.
- Huge differences in income; the top 10 % earns 15 times more than the bottom 10 % of population.
- Sociological studies tell us that tenfold or bigger differences in income have produced revolutions.
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