RFE/RL Security Watch Vol. 1, No. 16, 6 November 2000
RUSSIA INCREASE SHARE OF WORLD ARMS TRADE. Russia increased its share of the world arms trade from 4.4 percent in 1998 to 6.6 percent in 1999, "Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie" reported on 27 October, but it still is in fourth place behind the U.S., the U.K., and France. Roosvooruzhenie chief Aleksei Ogarev said that if Turkey purchses Russian helicopters, Russian arms exports in 2000 will reach nearly $4 billion (see "RFE/RL Security Watch," 30 October 2000). Meanwhile, Duma Defense Committee Chairman General Andrei Nikolayev told "Krasnaya gazeta" on 28 October that weapons sales are central to the conduct of Russian foreign policy because the countries that purchase arms will inevitably look to the country which supplied them for leadership.
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