MOSCOW - Official government figures show that the Russian economy was 4.6 percent smaller in the second quarter than the same quarter the previous year in the wake of plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions.
Associated Press: Russian economy shrank 4.6 percent in second quarter on lower oil prices
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures to a manta ray at the Moskvarium Center of Oceanography and Marine Biology aquarium in the All-Russia Exhibiton Centre (VDNKh), a public park and exhibition space in Moscow, on Aug. 4.
