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Interfax, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, 03.03.2004
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Moscow. (Interfax) - Ukraine posted the highest year-on- year industrial
output growth in the CIS in January 2004 at 16.1%, the CIS Interstate
Statistics Committee said Wednesday.
Production grew 14.4% in Georgia, 11.3% in Belarus, 8.9% in Moldova, 8.7% in
Kazakhstan, 7.5% in Russia, 4.7% in Tajikistan, 4% in Azerbaijan, and 2.2%
in Kyrgyzstan. Production dropped 8.9% in Armenia. The statistics committee
does not have figures for Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.
GDP was up 9.9% in Azerbaijan, 9% in Ukraine, 8.2% in Belarus, 8.1% in
Tajikistan, 4.4% in Armenia, and 3.9% in Kyrgyzstan. Goods and services
production in Russia's core industries grew 7.6%.
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Inflation was highest in Armenia at 2.5%. Inflation was 2% in Azerbaijan,
1.9% in Belarus, 1.8% in Russia, 1.5% in Moldova, 1.4% in Ukraine, 1% in
Kyrgyzstan, 0.7% in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, and 0.4% in Georgia.
Producers prices grew 4.2% in Russia, 3.9% in Belarus, 2.3% in Kazakhstan,
1.7% in Tajikistan, 1.6% in Ukraine, 1.3% in Azerbaijan, 1.1% in Armenia,
and 0.9% in Kyrgyzstan. In Georgia, producers prices slid 0.05%.
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