SIPRI Yearbook 2013
III. Russian military expenditure, reform and restructuring
The rising trend in Russia's military expenditure, which started in 1999, accelerated sharply in 2012, with a real-terms increase of 16 per cent compared with 2011. The draft budget for 2013–15 contains plans for a further rise in nominal terms of just over 40 per cent by 2015 (see table 3.5).1 This would amount to a real-terms increase of approximately 17 per cent between 2012 and 2015, based on current inflation projections, and military spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) would rise to 4.8 per cent.2 The increases come as Russia implements the ambitious 2011–20 State Armaments Programme (Gosudarstvennaya Programma Vooruzheniya, GPV), and undertakes a wide-ranging reform of its armed forces. This section summarizes the reforms and discusses widespread doubts as to how far they can be implemented.
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