MOSCOW, Sept. 9 -- Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) rose 4.2 percent in the first half of 2010 to 20.7 trillion rubles (about 670.6 billion U.S. dollars), the RBC news agency reported on Thursday.
" D9 i8 E6 _' F8 V) ?( O# W( j According to the Federal Statistics Bureau Rosstat, in the second quarter the economy grew by 5.2 percent year-on-year and by 8 percent compared to the first quarter.
/ K. @) i0 i8 r( y Thus, the figure for the second quarter GDP has been corrected downward from the earlier reported 5.4 percent.
, A. d; C# x- y8 ~1 ]5 i# [4 g9 Z2 F The Ministry of Economic Development put the GDP growth in 2010 at 4 percent |