Rise in prices for eggs, sugar, fruit and vegetables, tobacco and gasoline among non-food products, tourism, communal services and education in the services' sector were main sources of accelerating consumer inflation in 2018. Russia is juxtaposed Brazil, Mexico, India and South Africa according...

2016 was marked primarily by an all-time low consumer (especially food) inflation. The subsistence minimum, which is calculated based on the cost of a minimum food basket, was increasing at significantly slower pace than inflation. The cost of living has recently changed similarly for all...