‘We Need Our Government’: Surging Food Prices Put Kremlin on Edge Food prices are rising fast in Russia and the government has rolled out temporary price caps, but discontent is simmering. March 12, 2021 The government has introduced price caps in an attempt to stop food inflation, currently at a five-year high, from accelerating further. Moskva News Agency Lyubov, a 59-year-old pensioner doing her weekly shop, doesn’t know why her Russian state pension isn’t going as far as it used to, but is sure the government needs to do something about it. “All the prices for food are going up,” she told The Moscow Times on her way out of a branch of Billa, a mid-range supermarket in the capital’s Profsoyuznaya district. “Everyday products like sugar, bread, eggs and chicken have become too expensive.”