He said this, speaking during a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Legislators.
“According to preliminary estimates, inflation this year, according to the basic forecast, will be 20.7%, next year it will not be small - more than 6%,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, Kudrin said that inflation in the country by the end of this year could range from 17% to 20%.
On April 18, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the financial regulator did not intend to return inflation to target levels by any means.