FACTBOX: Facts about Russia

(Reuters) - Here are some facts about Russia, which held a presidential election on Sunday.

ECONOMY:

Nominal GDP (2007) - 32.99 trillion rubles ($1,375 billion). In 1999, nominal GDP was less than $200 billion.

Economic growth forecast (2008) - 6.6 percent.

Economic growth (2007) - 8.1 percent.

Inflation (2007) - 11.9 percent.

President Vladimir Putin has presided over the Russia's longest economic boom for a generation, helped by soaring prices for Russia's main exports -- oil, gas and commodities. A consumer boom inside Russia has boosted growth in recent years, though the government has found it hard to bring down inflation. Corruption remains widespread.

Russia is the world's biggest gas producer, the second largest oil exporter and one of the top producers of aluminum, steel, palladium and nickel.

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