"The index of its physical volume relative to the first quarter of 2020 amounted to 99.3%, relative to the fourth quarter of 2020 - 82.1%," RIA Novosti reports.

It is noted that "the GDP deflator index for the 1st quarter of 2021 in relation to the prices of the 1st quarter of 2020 amounted to 108.9%."

Earlier, the chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina assessed the impact of vaccination against COVID-19 on GDP.