Oreshkin again criticized the Central Bank

Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin called unacceptable the publication by the Central Bank of Rosstat data on inflation for June before the distribution of Rosstat.

Quote. "This is absolutely unacceptable. I will ask my colleagues from Rosstat and the Bank of Russia to conduct an internal investigation into this matter," Oreshkin said (Interfax).

• Rosstat publishes inflation dynamics at 16:00 Moscow time, today it appeared on the Central Bank website earlier.
• The data is important: estimated annual inflation slowed down to 4.7% from 5.1% in May, the June one became zero for the first time since the Soviet Union.
• The Central Bank replied that it did not see the need for an official investigation, because "the information on the Rosstat website has been available to external users since the morning of July 8."
• Rosstat admitted to early publication.
• Oreshkin has recently been arguing furiously about macroeconomics with Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina. The debate about the dangers of lending began at SPIEF and continued on social networks with the minister's phrase " "I thought the Central Bank is better with macroeconomics .
• The last big mistake of Rosstat was related to industrial production statistics . After that, Alexei Kudrin proposed to remove Rosstat from the subordination of Oreshkin's department, who blamed the original data for errors.
• Who is right in the dispute between Oreshkin and Nabiullina, we have analyzed here .