Russia overtook the EU on inflation two and a half times
Inflation in Russia for the first half of 2012 amounted to 3.2 percent, and in the European Union - 1.3 percent. Thus, as reported in the materials of Rosstat, the growth rate of consumer prices in Russia was 2.5 times higher than in the EU. Among the individual EU countries, inflation above the Russian was recorded only in Hungary (4.3 percent) and Malta (6.8 percent). In Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Sweden, the growth rate of consumer prices was less than a percent.