Russian industrial production grew 2.2.% year-on-year in January, State Statistics Committee first deputy chairman Alexander Surinov said on 18, Feb 2002. Surinov, speaking at a news conference at Interfax, said "this growth is less than last year, but nonetheless growth is continuing".
Compared to December 2001, however, industrial output slumped 0.4% in January. He also said that statistics committee has revised the GDP growth figure for 2000 to 9.0% from 8.3 %. This revision is not yet the final one, and the data for 200 "could be corrected in future as well as new data comes in".