In the medium term, prices will remain the same in February, but may grow in March.

Prices will keep pace with inflation, which is expected to reach 10-10.5%, given no cataclysms.

The cold snap [which seized the country last week] sent prices for diesel fuel rocketing, as there was an acute shortage and, accordingly, a high demand for it.

We will have to raise VAT again in a couple of years.

The pilot project to use the funds [allocated for the purpose] will be possibly determined.

Russia's obligations to its US partners will end in the spring. A Soyuz rocket will then take two Russian cosmonauts... to the ISS. The third place will be reserved either for a space tourist or for an astronaut from the European Space Agency.