UFA, 29 March 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Galiya Nabieva/. In Russia by the middle of summer inflation will fall to a record 1.1% in annual terms, but in August it will increase to 1.2%, Izvestia reports.
According to a macro forecast of the G.V. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, the slowdown in prices was primarily due to a potential decrease in the Central Bank's key rate, stable high oil prices and forecasts for a good harvest.