"Fact" daily writes:
When in 2025 at the end of the year, the first batch of gasoline from Azerbaijan arrived in Armenia, the authorities made such noise as if an economic miracle was about to happen. Moreover, already at the beginning of January, it became a "great occasion" for them for PR, that the price of gasoline at the gas stations of several companies really dropped a little. Already after another batch arrived, even those companies that had nothing to do with Azerbaijani gasoline reduced the prices a little. During that time, Nikol Pashinyan even "convinced" gas station employees to tell them that the price of gasoline not only did not increase, but even decreased.
But for almost a week now, gasoline prices in Armenia have risen so much that they have sharply "surpassed" even last year's prices, which have not yet cooled down. But the problem is not even just gasoline. Its price increase can still be "packaged" with international prices. The whole issue is that the price of food has risen sharply, including those produced in Armenia. For example, the price of meat and vegetables has increased significantly. Regarding the latter, the possible reason that it is a seasonal price increase is frivolous, because even in winter, tomatoes and cucumbers, peppers and greens were not as expensive as they are now. Bread, eggs and many other products have also become more expensive.
In short, while the authorities present the increase of pensions by 10,000 drams as a world-famous event, the inflation reaches enormous levels, making people's living standards worse. Of course, inflation has been quite high and continuous in the past years as well, bringing the difference between the minimum basket and people's incomes to embarrassing proportions, but recently the rates of inflation are simply frightening. According to experts, inflation is beneficial to the authorities, because it provides additional revenues to the state budget. On the other hand, what about those price increases? the authorities have extremely high incomes and are not affected by price increases in any way.
Details in today's issue of "Past" daily.
