Sverdlovsk Region: Inflation rate at 0.9% in October

January 12, 2016. Inflation rate was registered at 14% in Sverdlovsk Region in December 2015 against a year earlier and at 0.5% against November 2015, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 17.2% more expensive compared with December 2014 and 1.7% more expensive compared with November 2015; the price of strong drinks went up by 9% and 0%, respectively. Non-food items grew 0.3% more expensive compared with November 2015 and 14.3% more expensive compared with December 2014. The price of services dropped by 0.6% compared with November 2015 and rose by 10.9% compared with December 2014.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 6, 2015. The prices of food items went up by 20.3% in Sverdlovsk Region between July 2014 and July 2015 (the figures do not account for strong drinks), Sverdlovskstat reports. Alcohol items grew 11.2% more expensive in the course of a year. Non-food items grew 13.3% more expensive, while the price of services went up by 15.8%. Sverdlovsk Region’s overall inflation rate was estimated at 16% between July 2014 and July 2015. Compared with June 2015, however, food items were 0.1% cheaper in July.

March 5, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s inflation rate stood at 7% in February 2015 compared with December 2014 and at 16.9% compared with February 2014, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 9.9% more expensive against last December and 25.1% more expensive against last February, while the price of strong drinks rose by 2.9% and 13.9%, respectively. Non-foot items became, respectively, 5.7% and 11.8% more expensive and services became 6% and 15.7% costlier.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 5, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s inflation rate came to 0.04% in May 2015 and to 8.6% compared with December 2014, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items (including strong drinks) grew 0.1% more expensive in the last month and 11.8% compared with the start of the year; alcohol grew 0.1% more expensive against April 2015 and 6.5% more expensive against December 2014. The price of non-food items went up by 0.3% in May 2015 and by 8.5% against the start of the year; the price of services went down by 0.3% against April 2015 and went up by 4.2% against December 2014.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. The prices of consumer goods and services went up by 11.4% in September 2015 compared with December 2014; a year earlier, the increase stood at 6.1% (September 2014 against December 2013), Sverdlovskstat reports. The overall increase in food prices (including strong drinks) was above that of last year (11.7% against 8.9%). Food items (excluding strong drinks) grew 12.3% more expensive ( against 8.7% a year earlier). Fish and seafood, meat, bread and pastry, milk and dairy products grew 19.2%, 9.4%, 9.2%, and 9.1% more expensive, respectively. The price