27 January 2002 - current military situation in Russia. 1,700 arms manufacturers in Russia being integrated to about 50 so the government can compete more easily in overseas markets. Brazil is interested in buying quantities of Su-27 and MiG 29 aircraft. All aircraft production will now belong to Sukhoi, and that is about 70% of all Russian arms sales. Tanks will be built in two locations in Siberia. Rosvooroeksport, headed by former KGB officers loyal to President Putin, handles all out of country arms shipments.

While some $4.4 billion worth of arms are going overseas, Russian military is the poor stepchild. India is receiving almost all the new T-90 tanks, but almost none to the Russian Army.

Electric companies are now privately owned in Russia and when the bill doesn't get paid, they shut off the electricity. The Russian Space Force on the Kamchatka Peninsula had their electricity shut off on 26 January and has completely stopped tracking all Russian satellites, military and civilian - including the International Space Station. The military families stationed there are without light or heat, up in the arctic.

On 25 January, the power company in Chitka, eastern Siberia, shut off the electric power to all military installations in the area and in eight military camps, over 20,000 military personnel and families have no light or heat - in Siberia!

The air bases in the Primorsk region (far east) have been experiencing periodic power shut-offs. The Russian Air Force was some $700,000 in arrears to the power company by 1 Jan, 2002.

President Putin has never once visited any military installations in Siberia or the Far East since his appointment, and there are bitter complaints regarding his indifference to the fate of the Russian military personnel and their families in this region