The Russian government decided to meet the oil industry halfway and adjust the damper mechanism in the fuel market. The prices included in it will be indexed in accordance with the level of actual growth in retail value. A message about this appeared on the resource of the Cabinet.

Therefore, the authorities supported the ideas of oil workers to increase gasoline prices. There was also decision about using the actual retail price growth rates to calculate the damper in the future. According to the government, such measures should improve the economy of the oil refining sector and prevent prices from rising above inflation.

Earlier, the head of Gazprom Dyukov said that it is necessary to index the damper, but not by 5 percent a year, as it is now. “If retail prices grow by 1.5-2 percent, then indexation should be carried out in the same amount,” he noted.