Russia Shot Out 8.5% of Its Economy in Q2 2020 With the Lockdown
Is looking at a 5% contraction for the whole year
Editor’s note: A lockdown which the Kremling itself de facto admitted had been utterly pointless by abandoning it, and staging a massive parade in June, while Covid flu deaths were still near their peak).
Russia’s GDP fell by 8.5% in 2Q20 due the lockdown quarantine measures imposed across the country reeling from the coronacrisis.
The second quarter of the year took the full brunt of the crisis as many industries were shuttered by the restrictive measures in connection with the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. However, the fall was not quite as bad as the corresponding falls in GDP during the previous 1998 and 2009 crises.
The decline in GDP in the second quarter, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to 8.5% year on year after growing by 1.6% in the first quarter, according to Rosstat.
Rosstat data turned out to be better than the previous predictions from the Ministry of Economic Development, which estimated the drop in GDP in the second quarter at 9.6%, and better than the Central Bank’s (CBR) expectations of a decline of 9-10%.
The “quarantine quarter” performed better than the crisis in 1998, where the most significant decline was recorded in the fourth quarter of 9.1%, and during the global financial crisis a decade later, where the second quarter was also the worst of the year with a drop of 11.2%.
All of Russia’s sectors contracted with the exception of agriculture. The maximum drops were noted in the commodity sector, retail trade, passenger transportation, as well as in industries related to the provision of services to the population. The least affected sectors were manufacturing, construction, wholesale and cargo transportation, as well as in the provision of electricity, gas and steam and air conditioning.
As bne IntelliNews reported, a non-payment crisis was expected to appear in the utilities sector, but failed to happen.
Agriculture was the only sector that continued to grow, putting in a 3.1% y/y gain.
Industrial production was also down by 8.5% y/y, while the oil sector was also hit by the new OPEC+ deal and saw output decline by 10.3%. Retail turnover decreased by 16.6%, passenger turnover by 79.0%, catering by 48.9%, and the volume of paid services to the population by 37.2%.
In the June version of the forecast, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade expected a drop in the Russian Federation’s (RF) GDP by 4.8% in 2020; an increase in 2021 by 3.2%; in 2022 by 2.9%; and in 2023 by 3.1%.
Some time ago, the CBR narrowed the forecast interval for a fall in RF GDP in 2020 to 4.5-5.5% from 4-6% according to the previous version. In 2021, the CBR is now anticipating a rebound of the economy by 3.5-4.5% instead of the previous forecast of growth of 2.8-4.8%, in 2022 it predicts growth of 2.5-3.5% instead of the previous interval of 1.5-3.5%.
The consensus forecast, compiled by Interfax based on a survey of analysts of leading investment companies, banks and think-tanks at the end of July, in terms of GDP dynamics for 2020 was slightly better than official expectations and assumed a decline of 4.2%, followed by an increase of 3.1% in 2021.
Source: bne IntelliNews
Putin is NWO . Locked the country down and now intends to vaccinate everyone. He takes orders. He doesn’t give them.
You are blabbering now!
another amerikan durak….only Moscow closed restaurants, bars—where more than 2/3 of the 12,000 covid fatalities occurred…masks r not required in Russia and many other nations…u robots submissively do anything your ruling class requires, yet u have the most covid fatalities on earth…155,000…weak obese, childish comic book reading, mentally ill puritans
where u have fluoridated water and u u children require expensive vaccinations, in Russia they r without cost and voluntary….expected in the US that backward people do not have universal health care
https://www.rt.com/russia/497719-russia-vaccine-orders/
Bill Gates’ linkage to a US-produced vaccine and the WHO has nations looking elsewhere.
Sadly, the sinister intelligentsia of the Russian state apparatus scammed the naive Russians who fell hook line and sinker for the Gates. NWO, WHO, Chinese fascist regime, COVID con and the economic fallout is all too obvious. The supposed COVID vaccine is just lipstick on the same pig.The vaccine is just propaganda spin by Puin to suppress the kind of mass awareness of the COVID fascism that the German people are taking to the streets by millions to reject. You can’t have a vaccine for a new virus that only “exists” using bogus PCR and antibody tests.
Putin needs to have a major expose of Russia’s corrupt medical bureaucracy before they cause terminal damage to the good people of Russia.
a slight temporary development—Russia is far less harmed than Western Europe—the USA the worst where the economy has contracted at least 30%…..of course Russia possesses reserves—all European nations r indebted—the USA the worst off
Can you imagine that the fear of death from a virus made most nations of the world commit economic suicide.
Russia should develop this technology and make a ton of money.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/08/yvonne-lorenzo/will-a-viable-nuclear-plasma-energy-generation-technology-be-strangled-in-its-crib/
Sadly Russia followed the Caravan the dogs were barking at over the Cliff!
the covid news are over and not important anymore, we have the upcoming aggression against Iran and Trump trying to stop voting in USA, get on with the program eh?