The greatest production acceleration was registered in Primorie District, Kaliningrad, Sakhalin, Leningrad and Moscow regions, in Moscow and Aginsky Buryatia’s Autonomos District.
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Russia’s Regions Attempt to Grow Up to Leaders
The gap between the most and less developed regions of Russia isn’t narrowing, the RF Statistics Service said in the report made out for January to September of this year. The good news is that the leading regions are pulling up neighbors, where both production and income are stepping up.
“The growth in key economic indicators was noted in the better part of the RF regions,” said the yesterday’s outlook of the Russian Statistics Service made out for January to September of this year. The greatest acceleration was registered in Primorie District, Kaliningrad, Sakhalin, Leningrad and Moscow regions, in Moscow and Aginsk Buryatia’s Autonomous District.
At the same time, the production shed in 15 regions of Russia, including the North Caucasus, Magadan region, Taimyr, Koryakia and Chukotka.
But there are some changes. Some regions, to which the declining output would have been more common, benefited from the surge in production. Primorie posted the growth of 23 percent and Sakhalin stepped up 30 percent. For Sakhalin, this material increase apparently roots in the oil projects – the crude production there jumped 1.4 fold on year in the first nine months of this year.
Of interest is that regions neighboring the leaders showed higher growth of production and income of the population. Moscow, for instance, posted the 9.7-percent increase in real income, and the indicator jumped 17.6 percent in the nearby Yaroslavl region and 17.8 percent in Tver region. The regions close to St. Petersburg and Tyumen manifested similar performance.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 29, 2006
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