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  • Consumer Commodities Rise 2.5% In Armenia Over January

    CONSUMER COMMODITIES RISE 2.5% IN ARMENIA OVER JANUARY

    YEREVAN, February 17. /ARKA/. Prices for consumer commodities rose 2.5%
    in Armenia in January 2015, compared with December 2014, and 4.3%,
    compared with January 2014, Gurgen Martirosyan, chief of the National
    Statistical Service's price statistics and international comparison
    division, said at a news conference on Tuesday.

    he said. In his words, prices for
    foods leapt 4.5% in January 2015, compared with December 2014, and
    prices for nonfoods and services went 0.5%.


    Martirosyan said.

    He said fruits leapt 8.4%, coffee, tea and cocoa 5.9%, eggs 4% and
    bread 4.3%. Soft beverages rose just 0.6%, spirits and cigarettes 0.3%
    and meat 2% over one month.

    Prices for consumer commodities climbed 4.5% in January 2015, compared
    with January 2014. Foods went 5.4%, nonfoods 2.4% and services 3.2% up.

    Martirosyan said that the 2.5% average rise in consumer prices
    recorded in Armenia over one decade brought it the third rank among
    the CIS countries.

    Russia accounted for a 3.9% month-on-month price rise in January 2015
    (the highest indicator), Ukraine for 3.1% and Belarus for 2.4%.

    Georgia recorded the lowest price rise - 0.2%, Moldova 0.8% and
    Kazakhstan 0.6%.

    Martirosyan also said that comparison with January 2014 shows that
    prices in Ukraine mounted 28.8%, in Belarus they grew 17.1% and in
    Russia 15% over one year with the lowest indicator in Georgia - 1.4%.

    Amid the growing commodity prices, petrol and diesel in Armenia shed
    2.5% and 0.9% respectively over one year. Martirosyan said. ---0----

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