Inflation Process in Modern Russia-from the Viewpoint of Price Statistics Research

Abstract

It is hard to judge that introduction of a new statistical system led to improvement in availability of statistics in Russia today. Though many of problems which Russian price statistics has take place in every country, they occur in the extreme form, because Russia is in a transition process, lacks for experience of producing the price statistics in the market economy and has a vast territory, etc. "Arrears", barter and transactions in dollars, in which ruble is eliminated, are widespread and it has complicated the price system of a country. Such a situation is just a special situation of Russia, and makes the statistical improvement difficult.