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‘The overall size and pricing amount of all goods and services produced in the country should be equivalent’ president of the Union of Consumers Armen Poghosyan said.

According to official data, as the macro indexes show there is 7, 7 % of economic growth in Armenia and 2, 8 % of inflation. In his opinion 7, 7 % of growth is not a bad index, but the problem is that we should feel that growth in our family budget.

‘As for the inflation, 800 goods and services are being observed. The difficulty is that among those products there are some that the consumer buys only once or does not buy at all. In order to understand influence impact on the consumer basket the most important 25 goods and services should be observed separately' A. Poghosyan stated, adding that increasing the price of a product by 100% is impossible and senseless.

Regarding the increase of the gas price, the speaker said that Russia sells gas to Armenia by exclusively cheap price and that such a price does not exist in any other country. It is the Kremlin that decides gas prices. 'We cannot influence that process, the only thing we can do is to think on how to oppose or compensate’ Poghosyan added.

To the question of ‘Pastinfo’ agency on how many times the Union of Consumers appealed to the Court and how many cases were linked to nutrition, Poghosyan replied. 'In total we had 42 cases in the court 41 of which we won. Unfortunately none of them concerned nutrition, since people usually apply regarding the matters of property and household activities’.