By Vestnik Kavkaza
The tourist inflow to Crimea will grow in 2015 by at least 20%, according to forecasts of tour companies. Last year 4.1 million tourists visited Crimea. Meanwhile, according to Ukrainian media, Crimean industrial production has reduced by 10% in a year. In the mining industry and development of open-pit mining, the volume of production grew, but production of food products, light industry, and machinery reduced.
Igor Ryabov, the head of the research center of Industry and Society, says that since January 1st the situation has changed, as the transactional period has come to an end – new tasks have been set and the republic is living in a different environment: “Sitting in Moscow, we hear about Crimea’s problems but, when we analyze developments in industry and other sectors of the Crimean economy, we can see what great work has been done. The first result is the emotional lift due to the events of the Crimean Spring. The support by the population for all the changes which are going on in Crimea encourages modernization. Quick implementation of Russian norms in all spheres – from the banking sector to the management sphere – have also led to synergy.”
According to Ryabov, serious changes have taken place inside the Crimean elite; it is successfully coping with the serious challenges of integration into Russia. “Of course the changes won’t stop this year. They will go on. The key role is played by positions and plans on federal target programs for development of Crimea and Sevastopol to 2020 – the whole volume of financing and infrastructural changes.”
At the same time, the Crimean prosecution service revealed numerous instances of overpricing for socio-important commodities. The biggest overpricing in stores of Simferopol came up to 150%. As a result of checks, more than 450 reports were made and almost 30 warnings were voiced. According to the Crimean Statistics Service, in one month the highest growth of prices has been fixed for buckwheat – by 99.5%; tomatoes – 59.7%; nuts – 42.5%; grapes – 30.7%; cabbage – 27.1%; beef liver – 22.4%; millet –22.3%; tea – 21.8%; gingerbread – 21.2%; smoked sausage – 20.8%; potatoes – 20.5%; carrots – 18.7%; garlic – 18.1%; chopped meat –17.9%; boneless beef – 15.5%; mayo – 14.7%; bananas – 14.3%; fresh cucumbers – 14.2%; salt – 13.4%; frozen vegetables – 13.3%; sparkling wine – 12.7%; onion – 12.6%; smoked meat –12.4%; lemons – 12.2%; milk – 11.9%; spaghetti – 10.9%; butter – 9.3%; poultry – 9.1%; apples –8%; eggs – 7.6%; oil – 7.4%; ketchup – 7.3%; mineral water – 7.1%; cookies – 6.7%; beets, peas, and beans – 6.6%.
At the same time prices fell for pelmeni, manty and ravioli by 4.5%; instant soup – 3.3%; chocolate curd – 3%; powdered infant formula –1.6%; cheese – 1.5%; bread – 1%.
Speaking about non-food products, prices grew for validol by 9.2%; Corvalol – 4%. At the same time, prices fell for Valokordin by 1.5%. Diesel fuel prices grew by 1.6%. AI-95 fuel prices fell by 0.3%.
The head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov hopes that Moscow will let the republic launch state regulation of prices for food products and medicines. “There are many speculations in certain companies, corporations which are working in the food market in difficult times,” Aksenov says. According to him, the Crimean authorities intended to launch the state regulation themselves, but they had no such functions.Crimea: problems of adaption overlap the crisis in Russia
The Crimean prosecution service reveals numerous instances of overpricing for socio-important commodities
By Vestnik Kavkaza
The tourist inflow to Crimea will grow in 2015 by at least 20%, according to forecasts of tour companies. Last year 4.1 million tourists visited Crimea. Meanwhile, according to Ukrainian media, Crimean industrial production has reduced by 10% in a year. In the mining industry and development of open-pit mining, the volume of production grew, but production of food products, light industry, and machinery reduced.
Igor Ryabov, the head of the research center of Industry and Society, says that since January 1st the situation has changed, as the transactional period has come to an end – new tasks have been set and the republic is living in a different environment: “Sitting in Moscow, we hear about Crimea’s problems but, when we analyze developments in industry and other sectors of the Crimean economy, we can see what great work has been done. The first result is the emotional lift due to the events of the Crimean Spring. The support by the population for all the changes which are going on in Crimea encourages modernization. Quick implementation of Russian norms in all spheres – from the banking sector to the management sphere – have also led to synergy.”
According to Ryabov, serious changes have taken place inside the Crimean elite; it is successfully coping with the serious challenges of integration into Russia. “Of course the changes won’t stop this year. They will go on. The key role is played by positions and plans on federal target programs for development of Crimea and Sevastopol to 2020 – the whole volume of financing and infrastructural changes.”
At the same time, the Crimean prosecution service revealed numerous instances of overpricing for socio-important commodities. The biggest overpricing in stores of Simferopol came up to 150%. As a result of checks, more than 450 reports were made and almost 30 warnings were voiced. According to the Crimean Statistics Service, in one month the highest growth of prices has been fixed for buckwheat – by 99.5%; tomatoes – 59.7%; nuts – 42.5%; grapes – 30.7%; cabbage – 27.1%; beef liver – 22.4%; millet –22.3%; tea – 21.8%; gingerbread – 21.2%; smoked sausage – 20.8%; potatoes – 20.5%; carrots – 18.7%; garlic – 18.1%; chopped meat –17.9%; boneless beef – 15.5%; mayo – 14.7%; bananas – 14.3%; fresh cucumbers – 14.2%; salt – 13.4%; frozen vegetables – 13.3%; sparkling wine – 12.7%; onion – 12.6%; smoked meat –12.4%; lemons – 12.2%; milk – 11.9%; spaghetti – 10.9%; butter – 9.3%; poultry – 9.1%; apples –8%; eggs – 7.6%; oil – 7.4%; ketchup – 7.3%; mineral water – 7.1%; cookies – 6.7%; beets, peas, and beans – 6.6%.
At the same time prices fell for pelmeni, manty and ravioli by 4.5%; instant soup – 3.3%; chocolate curd – 3%; powdered infant formula –1.6%; cheese – 1.5%; bread – 1%.
Speaking about non-food products, prices grew for validol by 9.2%; Corvalol – 4%. At the same time, prices fell for Valokordin by 1.5%. Diesel fuel prices grew by 1.6%. AI-95 fuel prices fell by 0.3%.
The head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov hopes that Moscow will let the republic launch state regulation of prices for food products and medicines. “There are many speculations in certain companies, corporations which are working in the food market in difficult times,” Aksenov says. According to him, the Crimean authorities intended to launch the state regulation themselves, but they had no such functions.
