Thus, he commented on the improved forecast of the International Monetary Fund on the Russian economy for 2023.
“There are opportunities to go into plus at the end of 2023.
This is a probabilistic story.
In this sense, the IMF evaluates us even better than we do ourselves, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
He emphasized that he had already indicated that Russia would meet “a 1% decline, because the first quarter of 2022 was very positive.”
“But further, many things will depend on intra-annual dynamics - and we have the opportunity to go into plus at the end of 2023.
I’m not ready to give probabilistic forecasts right now, but we will work to make it happen,” Belousov added.
Earlier, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the decline in Russia's GDP this year could be 0.6%.