06 May 2004 11:06
Statistics show consumer prices rising in Russia
Moscow, 6 May: Consumer-price inflation in April rose to 1.0 per cent against 0.8 per cent in March 2004, says a
bulletin of the Federal Service for State Statistics.
Consumer prices in April went up 0.7 per cent from the March level. Service fees increased 2.0 per cent. Food prices
rose 0.8 per cent. Non-food prices rose 0.6 per cent.
Consumer-price inflation since the beginning of 2004 has reached 4.6 per cent, including 3.6-per cent inflation of
consumer goods prices and 8.5-per cent inflation of service fees. [Passage omitted]
The cost of the minimum food basket averaged R1,149.4 [39.77 dollars] per month across Russia in late April, rising
0.6 per cent from the end of March and 6.3 per cent from the beginning of 2004.
In Moscow, the food basket cost R1,427.1 in late April, increasing 1.1 per cent since late March and 3.9 per cent
since the beginning of the year. In St Petersburg, it was R1,264.6, up 0.2 per cent from late March and up 4.7 per cent
from the beginning of the year. [Passage omitted to end]
[RIA news agency] |
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