Russians spent 5% of revenue to purchase foreign currency

Baku. 3 September. REPORT.AZ/ In July, Russians spent 4.8% on purchase of foreign currency.Figure close to this was recorded in April 2015.

Report informs referring to the State Statistics Committee of Russia, in July, the monetary income of Russians amounted to 4.6 trillion rubles.Thus, within one month, it increased by 4% by inflation of 0.8%.

These figures surprised analysts, as real wages, pension and business income in this period not increased.

According to the State Statistics Committee, expenditure on consumption of goods and services increased in July.

Russians spent on consumption of 70.5% of total revenues, 11.9% of income was spent on accumulation.