"This is connected primarily with the high prices of oil and a large influx of foreign-exchange currency that the Central Bank has to buy to prevent the rouble from growing stronger against the US dollar," Zhukov said in a speech at the conference on the theme of "Investments in Russias Future: New Markets and Opportunities".

Zhukov expressed hope that "inflation rate will be little mor

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MOSCOW, October 27 (Itar-Tass)