Inflation in Russia is not 10.9%, but 13%
Rosstat can privatize official inflation not so much on the real increase in prices as on the calculation methodology that Rosstat uses. “Citizens do not feel the difference in two percentage points, but for the government it is fundamental - after all, if inflation is 10.9%, then this is the best indicator over the past decade, and if 13%, then this is the worst indicator for three years,” said the head of the financial policy department of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Savatyugin.