Russia grows 4% as economy recovers from crisis
• AFPRussia's economy grew 4.0 percent in the first half of the year, continuing its recovery from the global crisis, but this was slightly below official forecasts, data showed on Tuesday.
Russia's economy grew 4.0 percent in the first half of the year, continuing its recovery from the global crisis, but this was slightly below official forecasts, data showed on Tuesday.

Aha! Everybody's got jobs and everybody's economy is growing except for the US. We seem to be going backwards, like a crab.