Moscow reveals ‘food’ item most hit by sanctions

Several food items have become costlier in Russia due to inflation in wake of the Western sanctions, but the hardest hit is 'chewing gum', media reports said. Chewing gum tops the list of food items that have seen the steepest increase in retail price in Russia over the past year, RT reported, citing a report in business daily RBK based on data from the State Statistics Service, Rosstat.