Foodstuffs rising in price every day

• 8.10.2007, 12:28

A fleet glance at the prices on Kamarouka market is enough to understand - everything here and in the shops has risen in prices.

The disappointed customers walk off the counters, where the frozen chickens are huddled, “KP v Belarusi” running.

- What is that? I was going to by a chicken for supper, but it’s chipper to buy cutlets in the hypermarket… - a young mother with a baby in her arms complaining.

It is true – the chickens that recently have cost 5-6 thousand rubles, now cost 7100 per kilogram.

- The prices have risen last week, - the buyers explain. – The factory we are working with raised the prices. Without any explanations. People are buying reluctantly, but what is to do?

The sunflower oil has also got up. Recently it cost no more expensive than 3000 rubles each bottle, today you can hardly find a bottle for 4000 rubles.

The oil is getting up 100-300 rubles every day, - a seller tells. – Because of harvest failure, you know. Today the Russian “Sloboda” costs 4000, “Solnechnaya semechka” – 4450 rubles per liter. Nobody knows how long the prices will be getting up. But our owner supposes that one liter will cost 5000.

The people buy sunflower oil by big 5 liter plastic oilcans for 23.000 rubles. There have stayed just few places with oil.

There evidently was a “harvest failure” of sour cream and cheese that have also become expensive for the last time. The bread counters are empty, there no cucumbers and few apples.

Note of Charter’97 press center: the site of the United Civil Front of Russia leader Garry Kasparov Kasparov.ru called the week’s saying the one of RF Central Bank ex-chairman Viktor Gerashchenko about the inflation rate in the country: “Foodstuffs have become 2 times more expensive. So why are they telling lie to us? What the yearly inflation of 9 per cent?”, - Gerashchenko said. These words are very suitable to the situation in Belarus.