most important customers is the russian government and it has the money the economy grew by one point five percent last year. russia's economic growth is mostly down to the recovery in the global economy and the associated recovery in the price of commodities like oil and natural gas russia is heavily reliant on income from oil and gas forty to fifty percent of that flows directly into russian government coffers it earns a lot more from the sale of commodities than it does from taxes. some of that money is spent on military hardware over the past few years russian military spending has climbed significantly but experts say that moscow's intervention in syria's civil war doesn't account for much of the total expenditure . if we look at the amount of fuel consumed to estimate the cost of stuff and the cost of aircraft carrier deployment we come to around three billion euros that's