What will rise in price since April 1

Although the first of April is considered the "day of the fool", this tradition does not affect official documents. On this day, various decisions come into force, which have a serious impact on the life of Russian citizens, writes the Russian Newspaper . So, this year, from April 1, the fare in public transport is changing, tariffs for international telephone calls, the amount of pensions, etc. The newspaper has prepared a review of the changes that have been introduced from today.

The fare in public transport increased to 10 rubles

Since April 1, public transport of the capital has risen in price. Get in a bus, trolley, a tram now costs 10 rubles . The same amount will have to be paid for one trip to the subway. At the same time, the benefits established for 57 categories of the population for the payment of travel are preserved. At the same time, fines for stiseral travel in the metropolitan transport will not increase yet.

Those who travel a lot and daily, it makes sense to purchase travel tickets. So, the cost of a single monthly pass for four types of transport will be 700 rubles, a ticket for five trips in the subway - 45 rubles, for ten trips - 75 rubles, 20 trips - 140 rubles. A monthly travel ticket on the subway will cost 350 rubles.

Prices for tickets in train increased by 50%

The fare in the trains near Moscow from today increased by 50%. The Government of Moscow and the Moscow Region explains this step with increased costs of suburban transportation.

The passage within the same zone now costs 6 rubles for a full ticket, 3 rubles for a preferential ticket and 1.5 rubles - for a children's ticket.

In the Moscow line, the fare in the suburban train will be 10 rubles - for a passenger without benefits, 5 rubles with benefits and 2.5 rubles - per child.

Telephone calls abroad have fallen

Telephone calls abroad have become cheaper. A decrease in tariffs for organizations on working days will be from 10 to 57%. The main share of the decrease will have to negotiate with subscribers of fixed (that is, not cellular) communication networks in European countries.

For the population, the cost of conversations during working hours will decrease by 30% -50%, depending on the direction of the call and the subscriber region. The reduction will not affect international calls to mobile phones.

Tariffs for international calls on weekends and holidays will vary depending on the time at which they are made. Signists introduced business time (from 8 to 20 hours on working days) and preferential time (from 20 pm to 8 in the morning and around the clock on weekends and holidays). In the grace time, calls are cheaper.

Recently, Russians had the opportunity to call the Comor islands. Automatic and custom -made communication with Afghanistan has been resumed. And calls to Belarus went up by 30-50%. This is due to the increase in the Belarusian operator of the cost of passing the signal from Russia.

In addition, tariffs for intercity and international communications in the negotiation points of Moscow are increasing. The cost of telephone services for intercity connections through the operator will increase: for intercity formations - by 30%, for international formations with subscribers of Ukraine, the Baltic countries and European countries - by 8%, for international formations with subscribers of other countries - by 12%.

Renaled pensions - on average by 121 rubles

From today, all pensioners will have another recalculation of the monthly payments they received.

The new legislation pensions consist of three parts: basic, insurance and funded (the last part does not receive the current pensioners). The basic and insurance parts are indexed in different ways.

From April 1, the basic part of all types of pensions (old age, disability and on the occasion of the loss of the breadwinner) will grow from 600 to 621 rubles. As for the insurance part of the retirement pension, it will grow from April 1 to 9%.

As a result, according to the Pension Fund, the minimum pension will rise from the current 894 to 944 rubles, and the average pension in the country - from 1762 to 1883 rubles. The size of a social pension will reach 1225 rubles (an increase of 45 rubles).

The size of the average labor pension will pass in two thousand, increasing from 1925 to 2060 rubles. The maximum labor pension from April 1 will be 2243 rubles. This is information for those who are already receiving a pension.

Oil fee has increased

From April 1, Russian exporters will pay a fee for each exported ton of oil no longer $ 33.9, but $ 35.2. It will cost him the export of oil products - $ 31.7 in exchange for the previous 30.5 dollars.

The change in the amount of duties is due to the fact that oil in the world market is growing up, the oil industry revenues are growing, so they are forced to pay more.

In addition, duties were introduced in order to prevent the total oil export. True, according to experts, in recent years, domestic prices for Russian oil and petroleum products have become so high that sometimes it is not necessary to export in order to get solid profit.

According to the Moscow Fuel Association, at the beginning of the year, gas prices in Russia were lower than in Europe. At the same time, they almost corresponded to prices in the USA. Obviously, therefore, this year, gas prices are growing more slowly than inflation (in 2003 they overtook the total inflation rate by 7%). And in March, even a small (by 0.1%) decrease in oil prices was observed.