“Today inflation worries us a lot.
It doubled our target of 4%, we raised the rate, and we expect for now that we will have to maintain rigidity in politics in order to bring inflation back to the target, "RIA Novosti quotes Nabiullina.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that reducing inflation to 4% is a priority for Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the government.
Director of the Monetary Policy Department of the Bank of Russia Kirill Tremasov, speaking at the Moscow Exchange forum, spoke about the possibility of inflationary trends turning down.