According to the independent Russian-language website The Moscow Times, stores in Russia they try to fight with a wave of butter theftwhose prices have increased since the beginning of the year by over 25 percent
Some sellers remove the cubes from the shelves and store them at the checkouts along with caviar and alcohol, others place the butter in special plastic containers. For this reason it is already said that butter may share the fate of eggswhose price soared last year that he apologized for it in a televised speech Vladimir Putin.
Russia. Butter is becoming more expensive day by day, and theft is increasing
Although the Russian authorities are trying to argue that it is responsible for the increase in butter prices growing demand for ice cream and milk shortagesthe truth is slightly different.
Former deputy minister of interior affairs Ukrainy Anton Herashchenko he recalled that before the war, Russia imported butter from all over the world, and now the main supplier is Belaruswho cannot cope with meeting their needs.
Deputy Prime Minister supervising agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev, he reassured last week that the government would be there closely monitored butter prices. He also met with milk producers and retailers, assuring them of an increase in imports.
Russia and butter. A new symbol of inflation in the country
It is possible that due to rising butter prices, Russia will introduce restrictions for a few months duty-free import from countries that are not closed to its market, e.g. Uruguay the Argentina.
And although butter has become the latest symbol of Russia's inflation problems, it is not the fastest growing food product – Rosstat reports that potato prices have increased by 56.4% since the beginning of the year.
Reuters, in turn, points out that in May Vladimir Putin he said at a meeting with army commanders that “the Russian war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter.”
Source: The Moscow Times, Reuters