Inflation in Russia since the beginning of the year was two per cent.

KommentariiSploshnoy minus22.01.2009Stali known MEDT major forecasts for 2009 godInflyatsiya in Russia from 20 to 26 Jan., 2009 was 0.8 percent, Interfax reports with reference to the source of Rosstat. Since the beginning of the year consumer prices rose by two per cent. Over the same period last year, inflation stood at 2.2 per cent, while for the whole of January - 2.3 percent. According to Rosstat, in January this year, consumer price inflation was 2,4 percent.
During the week from 20 to 26 January, became the most sugar and black tea, add in the price of 6,5 and 1,2 percent respectively. Prices for frozen fish, canned meat, rice and salt increased by 0,5-0,7 percent. Fruit and vegetables went up by 1.3 per cent, butter - by 0.2 percent, milk - by 0.1 percent. The prices of rye bread has not changed, while wheat declined by 0.4 percent. Eggs and sunflower oil is also cheaper. Falling prices for these products amounted to 1,3 and 0,8 per cent.
Gasoline and diesel fuel cheaper at 0.7 percent. Over the past week was marked by a rapid increase in utility costs. Thus, the price of water in cold water increased by 8.2 per cent, hot water - by 6.6 percent on heating - 5.5 per cent. Payment for housing and electricity rose by 3.1 and 2 percent respectively.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development, promulgated on January 23, 2009, an increase in consumer prices in January 2009 will be about two percent. However, the agency said that in the current month producer prices drop. At the end of 2009 expected inflation in the 10-12 per cent, while the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, the growth of consumer prices was 13 per cent. For comparison, in 2008 inflation in Russia amounted to 13.3 percent.