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.% r3 b7 P# w5 J" i8 Y
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.
3 s3 s& q6 Z0 N- p, t5 x Thus, the figure for the second quarter GDP has been corrected downward from the earlier reported 5.4 percent.0 u9 U" E, `0 t( C
The Ministry of Economic Development put the GDP growth in 2010 at 4 percent |