【Russia's inflation rate reaches 9.5% so far this year】Golden Finance reports that the latest weekly data released by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service on Wednesday shows that as of the week ending December 23, the CPI in Russia rose by 0.33%, bringing the inflation rate for the year to 9.5%. Prior to the release of this data, the Central Bank of Russia unexpectedly decided to keep the key interest rate unchanged at 21% last week. The regulatory agency stated that recent tightening policies have created favorable conditions to reduce the inflation rate to the target of 4%. Andrei Gangan, head of the monetary policy department at the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the annual inflation rate in Russia will be between 9.6% and 9.8%.