Statistics: Producers cut gasoline price 19%, diesel fuel 9% Jan

MOSCOW, Feb 18 (PRIME) -- Russian producers reduced gasoline prices by 19.1% on average and diesel fuel prices by 9.2% in January, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a report on Monday.

In 2018, gasoline prices rose by 11.2%, diesel fuel prices by 29.8%, but in December, gasoline prices fell 15.4% and the diesel fuel prices by 4%.

On October 31, 2018, the Energy Ministry, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, oil companies, and independent oil refineries agreed on measures to stabilize fuel prices, which are to be valid from November 1 through March 31.

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