'We haven’t felt food prices have grown any more stable yet. We get the foods from our suppliers, who still use the growing prices, then we impose a 20% price increase and put the products on the shelves,’ Galina Dobroslavina, Director of Demetra Ltd (a grocery store), said to UrBC.

'The foods we are getting this week come at last week’s prices; there were no price drops of any sort,’ she added.

In the meantime, the Russian Federation Ministry of Agriculture’s executives and members of Russian business community discussed the ways of making essential food prices stable last Tuesday.