Economic Development Minister Maxim Rashnikov said in the State Duma that the rates for housing and communal services in Russia are not growing fast enough. According to the minister, over the past 13 years, community services have allegedly "lagged" consumer prices by 20%, which is why companies have "lost trillions of rubles". "We need housing and community services to become an industry that operates according to business principles so that it profits," said the minister. The Communist Party faction double-checked his calculations, and it turned out that the minister "lied": on the contrary, the increase in housing and communal services rates outweighs inflation. In the last 13 years, the cumulative inflation was 161.4%, and the cumulative increase in housing and community services rates was 185.4%. The rate increase over 11 years exceeded inflation by 7.9%, and over 13 years by 9.2%! This suggests that utility "businessmen" are already continually increasing their profit margins, squeezing more money out of the population than is required by rising prices. And people like Reshetnikov serve their own interests instead of curbing greed. "Mikhail Matveev responded. ".

Economic Development Minister Maxim Rashnikov said in the State Duma that the rates for housing and communal services in Russia are not growing fast enough. According to the minister, over the past 13 years, community services have allegedly "lagged" consumer prices by 20%, which is why companies have "lost trillions of rubles". "We need housing and community services to become an industry that operates according to business principles so that it profits," said the minister. The Communist Party faction double-checked his calculations, and it turned out that the minister "lied": on the contrary, the increase in housing and communal services rates outweighs inflation. In the last 13 years, the cumulative inflation was 161.4%, and the cumulative increase in housing and community services rates was 185.4%. The rate increase over 11 years exceeded inflation by 7.9%, and over 13 years by 9.2%! This suggests that utility "businessmen" are already continually increasing their profit margins, squeezing more money out of the population than is required by rising prices. And people like Reshetnikov serve their own interests instead of curbing greed. "Mikhail Matveev responded. ".