By the end of November, the aggressor-controlled “Krymstat” (“Crimean statistic agency”) published yet more “optimistic figures” regarding consumer prices on the occupied peninsula.
In the last month alone, Crimean prices have increased significantly for tomatoes (8 %), bread, cheese, and cucumbers (3 %), as well as buckwheat and sour cream (2 %). Over the past year, the same bread has increased in price by 30 %, cheese by 18 %, apples and margarine by 19 %, vodka, milk, and sour cream by 15 %, pork and cookies by 12 %. Flour, butter, and beef, as well as meals in restaurants, have also increased by 9 %.
In occupied Sevastopol, consumer prices have increased by 9.5 % over the past year, specifically, pork prices have risen by 13 %, beef prices by 11 %, and chicken and cheese prices by 18 %. Butter has risen by 14 %, mayonnaise by almost 25 %, and eating out has become 13 % more expensive.
Prices have increased even more significantly for such “luxury items” as ground and bean coffee (42 %), chocolate (21 %), and fish, including live and chilled (40 %), as well as frozen (23 %).
Collaborators are commenting on this “breakthrough to prosperity” in a peculiar way. Some advise purchasing non-perishable food products for the New Year “in advance,” while others promise to “fix the acreage of certain crops, such as potatoes, carrots, onions, and beets,” but this “rescue plan” doesn’t specify how to force them to be grown at a loss.
Meanwhile, the occupiers’ propaganda prefers to ignore the previously publicized “memoranda with retail chains,” according to which retailers were “obliged to maintain prices on social products.”
Now their focus is on “combatting low-quality food products” and “spontaneous trading,” but these ostentatious measures will, by definition, have no impact on price levels and dynamics.
