FAS checks rising bread prices in Dagestan

The Directorate of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia in Dagestan is checking the rising bread prices in Makhachkala, RIA Novosti reports.

The prices increased from 18-19 rubles to 24-25 rubles per loaf of bread on Monday. Flour prices at a bakery in Makhachkala increased from 500-550 rubles to 800-850 rubles per bag.

Bakeries sell bread for 21 rubles. Expeditors sell it for 23-24 rubles due to higher gasoline prices.

This has been the second increase of bread prices in Dagestan in the last 3 months.

750 grams of bread in Dagestan grew from 16 to 18-19 rubles on July 1. Bakers said that such dramatic rise of prices was a result of increased expenditures of flour, energy carriers, housing and utilities services, inflation of the past 2 years, wages, taxes and other expenses.