Russia’s federal statistics agency denies classifying fuel price data, says changes merely ‘streamline navigation through the indicators’
Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service, Rosstat, denies reports that it has classified data on national gasoline prices. The agency says changes to its Federal Statistical Work Plan were made to “streamline navigation through the indicators and unify the presentation of information,” and fuel cost data will continue to be released in full on Rosstat’s website and in the Unified Interdepartmental Statistical Information System, “but not in all the formats in which it was previously published.”
The independent outlet The Bell reported earlier Tuesday that a government directive published a week earlier excluded “information on consumer prices for petroleum products” from a Rosstat bulletin on fuel prices broken down by grade (AI-92/95/98/diesel), by region, and across 1,800 gas stations in 280 cities. Consumer fuel price data appears on the Rosstat website once a week, on Wednesdays.
Amid a fuel crisis, with restrictions on gasoline and diesel sales being introduced across Russia, fuel prices have risen sharply. Official statistics show that gasoline prices in Russia rose 3% between June 16 and 22, while diesel prices rose 2.7%. According to Bloomberg, this is the largest weekly increase in the past 20 years.
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