In April 2013 the consumer price index made 0.5% (versus 0.3% in April 2012), which is by 0.2 p.p. higher than in March of this year. In May inflation was also growing: in the 20 days of the month the CPI reached 0.4%. As a result, the inflation rate in annual terms has exceeded 7.2%. In Q1...

Over the period March 2015 – February 2016, the growth rate of prices declined to 8.1%, while the corresponding index for February 2015 – January 2016 amounted to 9.8%. As demonstrated by the results of a survey published by the Bank of Russia, in February the median inflation expectation...