... (compensating oil companies for part of the lost profit from supplying fuel to the domestic market at lower prices than export prices) if the average monthly gasoline prices exceed the internal price by 10%, and diesel prices exceed 20%. The upper limit for the stock price of gasoline is 64,515 rubles per ton (measured according to AI-92 quotes). On November 18, 2024, gasoline futures for this grade closed at 60,490 rubles per ton, with most of the month seeing prices below this level. Premium-grade gasoline prices have ...

... In the long term, experts agree that structural changes are needed to prevent annual price spikes. This includes developing stock trading and competition, improving the dampener mechanism, stimulating domestic oil refining, and supporting alternative ... .... Essentially, the challenge is to make the fuel market less dependent on external economic factors and more predictable. If gasoline price growth can be maintained within the bounds of overall inflation by year's end (which has typically been achieved in previous ...

... despite the fact that just recently, the Ministry of Energy opposed such actions, believing that there was no need for them, as the market's demand for petroleum products was fully satisfied. Why the Export Ban? The introduction of a temporary ban on gasoline exports from Russia in August 2025 relates to a combination of factors that occur annually and invariably lead to rising fuel prices domestically: scheduled repairs at refineries, seasonal increases in demand from motorists and the agricultural sector, as well as spikes in stock prices, including due to gray exports, explained Forbes by Alexey Ivanov, the owner of the commercial vehicle dealership network "Alliance Trax." "Previously, verbal interventions were used instead of this mechanism: government representatives ...

... year, the price of AI-92 gasoline at gas stations has risen by 6.6%, AI-95 by 7.2%, and diesel by 3.6%. Inflation in Russia since the start of the year, as of October 14, stands at 6.06%. According to Sergey Kaufman, an analyst at Finam, wholesale gasoline prices may fall by another 10-15% by the end of the year. Evgeny Mironyuk, a stock market expert at BCS World of Investments, notes that wholesale prices on the over-the-counter market are not yet declining as significantly. Therefore, he believes it is more accurate to talk about stabilization rather than a price decrease. ...

... prices usually show the most significant growth. Moreover, over the last two years, it was at the end of summer that gas station prices caught up with the national average inflation level. At the beginning of June, Anton Rubtsov, the director of the Oil and Gas Complex Department of the Ministry of Energy, reported that the Russian market was fully supplied with gasoline and diesel fuel (DF). As of June 5, the stocks of automotive gasoline at oil refineries and oil bases reached 1.8 million tons, which is 2% higher than the level at the ...