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Russia’s inflation will be 12-13% in 2022, Kremlin aide says
2022.08.29 16:17
FILE PHOTO: Sheets of the newly designed Russian 100-rouble banknotes are seen at the Goznak printing factory in Moscow, Russia July 6, 2022. Moscow News Agency/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) – Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said inflation will come in at 12-13% in 2022, below earlier expectations, as the economy looks set to defy the gloomiest predictions of a near collapse in the face of Western sanctions.
In a televised government meeting, Belousov also said consumer goods imports had largely rebounded thanks to parallel import schemes designed to replace Western goods that firms have pulled from the Russian market.
