Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak instructed the Federal Antimonopoly Service to monitor the situation of retail fuel prices in the new regions, Siberia and Dagestan, as well as in the Far East. In this respect he is writing TASS, citing a government report.
The message of the Cabinet after Novak’s meeting in 2015 was: “Regulators will have to analyze prices at gas stations in these regions, record the difference between fuel costs at gas stations of major oil companies and at independent stations and bring this to market indicators.” domestic petroleum products market.
Managers of oil companies, representatives of the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Antimonopoly Service attended the meeting. Novak emphasized that the prices of all kinds of fuel at gas stations should not exceed inflation at the end of the year and that FAS is obliged to follow this. In turn, representatives of the Ministry of Energy, oil companies and the Federal Antimonopoly Service reported that prices for gasoline and diesel at gas stations have stabilized. Meeting participants announced that there is no shortage of fuel in the supply of agricultural producers and that Russians’ demand for gasoline and diesel is met.
Novak 27 October statedIt was stated that diesel fuel prices are above the country average due to the sale of branded diesel fuel in some gas stations in Russia.
Since the beginning of the year, the price of AI-92 gasoline has fallen by 23 percent, the price of AI-95 by 24 percent, and the price of summer diesel by 24.1 percent.
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