Interfax
Finance & Business
Apr 1 2005 12:26PM
Ukraine, Russia post highest yoy inflation in Feb – Statistics committee
MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) – Ukraine and Russia posted the highest
year-on-year inflation in the month February: 13% for Ukraine and 12.8% for
Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States Inter-governmental Statistics
Committee reported.
Moldova posted 12.7% year-on-year inflation in February, Belarus 12.6%,
Azerbaijan 12% and Georgia 9.2%.
Kyrgyzstan posted the lowest February inflation at 2.9%. Next-lowest was
Armenia (4.8%), followed by Tajikistan (5.3%) and Kazakhstan (6.9%). The
committee had no inflation figures for Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.
Average February inflation throughout the CIS was 12%. [RU EUROPE EEU ASIA
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