The Antimonopolistic Committee challenged this order in court and won the case. In other words, if one wants to increase the prices, he has to report to the price department which checks the validity of this measure. The Department exercises control over pricing policy this way not only during the crisis. Two thousand eight hundred companies in the region have been checked since the beginning of the year. As a result, the budget received 16 million rubles paid as fines and, in the majority of cases, the prices came back to the normal level.
Trade fairs help a lot in lowering the prices.
The manufacturers get a chance to sell their products directly to the consumers without intermediaries. The consumers are attracted by low prices. The fairs also give a good chance to the local producers. We have heard a lot of complaints from the local producers that they lose in competition with imported goods in many spheres. Now, they get a chance to show their abilities.