Russian inflation unexpectedly decelerated in September for the first time in three months as a recession chokes domestic demand.
Consumer-price growth slowed to 15.7 percent from a year earlier after a 15.8 percent gain in August, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said in a statement Monday. The median of 18 estimates in a Bloomberg survey was for 15.8 percent. Prices increased 0.6 percent in the month.
