The authorities plan to reduce fuel prices at independent gas stations to the level of vertically integrated companies

The authorities intend to continue working to reduce the cost of fuel at independent gas stations to levels that are maintained at gas stations of vertically integrated Russian companies. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Channel One about this.

“We will continue to work so that prices return to the prices that are today at gas stations of vertically integrated companies,” said the deputy chairman of the government (quoted by TASS).

Earlier, he noted that at the gas stations of these companies, which provide about 80 percent of retail sales in the country and “perform essentially a social function,” prices are rising at approximately the level of inflation.