Africa needs Russia’s money more than Russians do? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The basic products of nutrition – bread, meat, butter, sugar, fish and vegetables – have increased in price in Russia since the beginning of the year by 4 times more than in the European Union. Such an unpleasant statistic of prices for foodstuffs has been published by Rosstat [the state statistics agency—Trans.] Experts explain the anomalous foodstuffs inflation by the absence of competition on the market, as well as the protectionist protection of domestic producers, whose prices often exceed the world level. “Stab[ilization]fund. And the people.. nothing as usual” (source)