Armenia has the second highest growth in prices for consumer goods in January-June 2010 among former Soviet republics. The prices have risen by 4.5% since last year in Armenia, news.am reports.
The first place belongs to Moldova, where the prices rose by 5.4%. Next are Kazakhstan and Russia (4.4% each), then Belarus and Kyrgyzstan (4.1% each).
They are followed by Uzbekistan (4%), Ukraine (3.3%), Estonia (3%), Tajikistan (2.8%), Lithuania (2.2%), Azerbaijan (2.1%), Georgia (2%) and Latvia (1.8%). There is no information on Turkmenistan.