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Russia’s Monetary Policy: Priorities to be Reconsidered Amid Decelerating Inflation, Slow Growth

Alexander Kudrin, Evgeny Gavrilenkov

GK EM Analytica
October 11, 2019

As in early October the w-o-w inflation did not move to a positive territory for another week and remained at zero, it became almost certain that inflation is going to get closer to 3.0% rather than to 4.0% this year, i. e. it will be well below the CBR target. It cannot be rule...

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