“The Minister (Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maxim Oreshkin. - RT ) approved the decision to terminate the powers of the Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise GMC Rosstat, who made the decision to dismiss at will,” the department said.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development, Oreshkin "was not satisfied with the poor financial and economic condition of the enterprise and a number of organizational problems, including the one that led to the incident with the premature publication of information about the value of the consumer price index."
Earlier it was reported that information about inflation in the country was available on the Rosstat website on the morning of July 8.
At 15:00, the Bank of Russia posted this data on its website.
Oreshkin called the situation unacceptable.
The official statistics of the Rosstat should have been published at a regulated time - at 16:00 Moscow time on Monday, July 8th.