Novak wants authorities to restrain growth of retail fuel prices

MOSCOW, Oct 20 (PRIME) -- Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has ordered the Energy Ministry and the Federal Antimonopoly Service to continue working with the regions to cap growth of small wholesale and retail prices for gasoline and diesel fuel to imflation this year, the government said in a statement on Friday.

“Alexander Novak has ordered the Federal Antimonopoly Service to continue joint work with the Energy Ministry and the troubled regions on getting the prices for gasoline and diesel fuel in small wholesale and retail to the level of no higher than inflation this year,” the statement read.

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