"And the golden toilet bowls of the chiefs of the traffic police..." What makes up the price of potatoes

As Novye Izvestia has already reported, Rosstat has recorded a record rise in the price of oatmeal in retail. Prices increased in August and September, so now 1 kg. "Hercules" costs 80.9 rubles.

Prices have also increased for essential products - flour, bread, pasta. At the Moscow bakery, they shrug their shoulders - grain is growing in price so quickly that the accounting department does not have time to rewrite the numbers, NTV journalists report.

Cucumbers and tomatoes also began to increase in price unusually early. The cost jumped in September.

This is on an all-Russian scale, but what about the regions? Crimean journalist Viktor Yadukha writes in his blog that in less than a month, from September 20 to October 16, meat in Crimea has risen in price by 20%, and eggs by 23%:

“At the same time, wages, of course, did not increase, and in some cases (for example, taxi drivers) decreased. A hundred years ago it was called "oppression".

However, in the rest of Russia, beef turns into an almost inaccessible delicacy. It wasn’t cheap anyway, but this year the price tags are hitting especially briskly. And after the New Year, the price will jump again. This also applies to pork. The most popular meat - chicken - is also growing in price.

Russian pricing know-how also deserves special mention. Viktor Yadukha also writes about him:

“I returned to the city after a short absence: potatoes cost 75 rubles. The driver of the potato truck said that they buy it for 20 rubles, but on the way they have to pay about 100 thousand in bribes. Each weight 2-3 thousand, regardless of the presence of an overweight. Each document check is 200-300 rubles at least, and there are a lot of them on the long shoulder. Of course, in the price of a retail kilogram there is also Rotenberg's "Platon", a carrier's markup, a seller's markup. But it is important to remember that about a fifth of the price we pay for food is the golden toilet bowls of all kinds of traffic police chiefs ... "

Network analyst Anatoly Nesmiyan explains in this regard that the rise in food prices is one of the tried and tested methods of governing the country:

“Hunger and fear - what could be better if you have to keep people in subjection? In that sense, last year's warning from a UN food globally that the world is threatened with famine is a logical addition to an epidemic of information terror on fear and horror exploiting the coronavirus theme.

At the same time, hunger looks quite specific - in reality, there is no food shortage. But the rise in prices for it leads to a decrease in the opportunities for people to buy it. What, in fact, is hunger - what difference does it make if shops and warehouses are bursting if you still can't afford it?"