According to the results of the first week of June, the consumer basket of about a hundred goods and services rose sharply by 0.21%, the Ministry of Economic Development reported on Wednesday, writes The Moscow Times.

Weekly inflation rates accelerated 2.5 times (a week earlier they were fixed at 0.08%), and the annual rate increased from 2.4 to 2.7%.

According to experts, the weakening of the ruble is affecting: since the beginning of the year, the dollar has risen in price by 14%, the euro - by 16%, and prices for imports - medicines and household chemicals - have crept up..

Food inflation, according to Rosstat, amounted to only 2.36% since the beginning of the year. However, individual food prices are rising at a double-digit rate: potatoes by 17.8%, carrots by 62.2%, onions by 119.1%, cabbage by 138.3%.

For the second week in a row, the price of chicken rises sharply - by 2.4% after 1.5% a week earlier.

After the shelling of the Belgorod region, one of the largest regions producing chicken meat, retailers have a shortage of the cheapest type of meat.

As the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Elfra Nabiullina, said at the end of April, inflationary pressure will only increase until the end of the year..

As reported, in May the Russian budget was executed with a slight surplus, which allowed the deficit to be slightly reduced in the first five months of the year.. However, spending in May was also at its lowest level..