CIS statistics committee issues GDP growth rating

RBC, 09.08.2005, Moscow 19:33:37.

In the 1st half-year of 2005, Russia ranked sixth rated on the GDP
growth (5.1 percent) in the CIS, the CIS statistics committee has
reported. As of the end of 2004, Russia shared the ninth position with
Kyrgyzstan in a similar rating.

According to the committee, in the 1st half-year of 2005,the
highest GDP growth rates in the CIS were reported from Azerbaijan
(16.5 percent) and Armenia (10.2 percent). Belarus posted 8.9-percent
growth, followed by Tajikistan (8.1 percent), Georgia (6.8 percent),
Ukraine (4 percent), and Kyrgyzstan (2.4 percent). No data are
available for the GDP growth in Moldova, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan. On average, the CIS GDP rose by 5 percent.