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COVID-19 hits Russian economy, second quarter's GDP down by 9.6%

Russia's economy was 6.4% smaller in June than a year earlier, data showed on Friday, after a sharp contraction - revised upward to 10.7% - in May, when the country partially locked-down to stop the spread of coronovirus it was done.