Rosstat, Russia's central governmental executive body responsible for generating official statistics in the country, will stop releasing its bulletin on consumer prices for petrol and diesel fuel after the Russian government made corresponding changes to the federal statistical work plan.
The order says item 1.5.13 will be removed. "Behind this set of figures in Rosstat's Federal Statistical Work Plan, which lists all available statistical indicators, is the entry 'Information on consumer prices for petroleum products'," The Bell explained.
The bulletin contained fuel prices broken down by grade, region and 1,800 filling stations in 280 cities.
"In essence, information that made it possible to monitor and verify fuel inflation will disappear."
The latest Russian statistics showed that from 16 to 22 June, amid a fuel shortage, petrol in Russia rose in price by 3% and diesel fuel by 2.7%.
Bloomberg reported that this was the biggest weekly increase in at least the past 20 years. The sharpest increases were recorded in the Caucasus, where petrol prices rose by 16.5% in Dagestan and 15.2% in Chechnya.
