For June of the current year, the volume of exports of Russian goods rose to a record indicator of $ 43.885 billion. This is stated in the materials of the Central Bank. This is the maximum level since 2014.
In June, the figure rose by 26 percent compared to May. At the same time, the maximum for the entire history of the supply of goods to the external market was observed in December 2011 – 50.248 billion dollars.
“Russian exports increased due to the increase in oil production as a result of a gradual weakening of the restrictions of OPEC + and high prices for goods (oil, petroleum products, metals, wood and semi-finished products from it and agricultural products)”, – explained RIA Novosti Managing Director Rating Service NRA Sergey Grishunin.
Earlier in the Ministry of Economic Development, they concluded that Russia’s GDP reached an additional daily level. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov is confident that the recovery growth of the country’s economy will continue in August.
According to him, at present the economy has crossed the level of the pre-crisis fourth quarter of 2019, and added that further development rates are the cause for concern. At the same time, the minister admitted that recovery growth ends. “While we will grow – and July, and August, and so on, but the question that worries us is further growth,” the reshetnikov told, specifying that in the future height should be based on investments, exports and stable domestic demand.