The usual raft of activity data for January showed that, following an awful December, conditions in the Russian economy improved at the start of this year. Encouragingly, there are early signs that falling inflation is starting to ease pressure on households’ real incomes. All in all, GDP is still contracting in year-on-year terms but the pace of contraction is slowing.
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