the Head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov said in the Kremlin react in the unfavorable to government statistics. We are talking about statistics, which is used when making decisions.
“Everyone reacts structurally. We also provide, use them. If necessary, give additional explanations,” said Malkov RBC.
the Minister added that according to the code of Eurostat, the office may provide statistics to a limited number of persons prior to the official release on the condition that the data will be published without any changes.
“the Majority of countries uses it and we also have this opportunity,” said Malkov.
He assured that no “secret forces” that have to agree on the statistics and change something in it, does not exist.
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