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Originally Posted by Feanor
I'm asking for statistics not generalizations.
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Statistics on what share do imported parts, materials, etc have in total quantity of parts and materials used by Russian industry and for each branch separately? I don't think there's such statistic anywhere. If you wnat you may search it yourself. After all why do you expect me to dig out statistics and figures, while you have not posted a single figure from any creditable source?
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Now you're telling me we have well developed industries and not so?
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Metallurgy - developped or not? Quite developped. Oil refinery - not first-class, but still quite developped. Chemical industry, etc. On the other side - electric/electronic industry, for example. Did USSR (and later Russia in 1990s) ever produced decent electric devices needed in every apartment - electric owens, kettles, TVs, VCRs (later - CD and DVD players), washing machines, irons, PCs? No, it didn't. We had giant power stations, generators, huge transformators, powerful electric motors, computers for military planes, and many other stuff, but we hadn't very common devices in our homes. What is the way to develop branch that was never developped before, in your opinion?
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The whole structure is still based on the same oil and gas with very little domestic diversification.
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Of course, oil and gas are used as an engine of diversification and today we can't really continue it without this engine. But 'very little' - come on. I'd rather said that our diversification is mainly domestic so far, you won't find Russian-made goods abroad. And you won't find them abroad even 5 and maybe 10 years after - internal demand is very high. But nothing can be done overnight. What are 8 years of growth compared to 80 years of distorted communist economy and 10 years of chaos?