The Central Bank's accumulation of foreign reserves drove inflation higher and that trend is expected to continue.
The situation reached a crisis in the late 1430's, when two years of bad harvests drove inflation up.
Mr. Yeltsin's plans to index pensions to the inflation rate for state workers could drive inflation even higher.
Pay and price increases did not drive inflation; they reflected it.
To economists, that is not much, especially if the stimulative effects of a tax credit and other fiscal policies drive inflation up sharply.
Government spending - fueled by the nation's oil wealth - rose an extraordinary 48 percent last year, and is one of the main forces driving inflation.
A lot of the factors that drove inflation in the past nobody foresees coming back.
An inflationary cosmology implies the presence of a scalar field that drives inflation.
Analysts were relieved that the Government decided not to raise any prices, which might have driven inflation upward.
And yet the recession, whose task is to drive inflation down, is anything but an illusion.