The best that can be said about Q1 GDP data from Russia is that the economy has avoided outright collapse and is, instead, merely on the cusp of recession. Although financial market conditions have stabilised in recent months, key vulnerabilities remain and, with fiscal policy still set to tighten, the growing confidence among policy makers that the economy will return to growth over the coming months looks overdone.
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