{"id":234683,"date":"2026-09-02T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/sharp-rise-in-utility-bills-pushes-russias-inflation-further-off-target\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:34:54","slug":"sharp-rise-in-utility-bills-pushes-russias-inflation-further-off-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/sharp-rise-in-utility-bills-pushes-russias-inflation-further-off-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in utility bills pushes Russia’s inflation further off target"},"content":{"rendered":"

The October increase follows a January rise and is the first double tariff hike in four years. The central bank warned it would push annual inflation further above its 4% target in an economy already squeezed by the costs of its war, sanctions and a 21% key interest rate. <\/p>\n

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The October increase follows a January rise and is the first double tariff hike in four years. The central bank warned it would push annual inflation further above its 4% target in an economy already squeezed by the costs of its war, sanctions and a 21% key interest rate. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":234684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}