“According to our estimates, already in June, as the restrictions were lifted, there was an improvement in economic indicators. At the same time, further economic recovery will take place rather gradually. As before, the epidemiological situation remains a key risk factor, ”Interfax quotes Deputy Minister of Economic Development Polina Kryuchkova as saying.

So she commented on the published data of Rosstat on the decline in Russia's GDP by 8.5% in the second quarter of 2020.

Earlier it was reported that inflation in Russia in the period from July 28 to August 3 was zero for the third week in a row.