Russia raises second-quarter economic growth to 1.9 percent

Russia's gross domestic product grew by 1.9 percent in the second quarter of 2018 in year-on-year terms, the state statistics service said on Monday, raising its previous economic growth assessment.

Last month, the statistics service reported that GDP had grown 1.8 percent in the second quarter of 2018 in year-on-year terms.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; Editing by Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber)