At the start of 2016, commodity prices in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city with about 1.5 million people, experienced a monthly average increase of 4.1%, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
While Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari awaits Senate approval of supplemental fuel subsidies as a part of a wider 413 billion NGN [2.1 billion USD] budget adjustment, black market fuel prices in Borno State capital Maiduguri have reportedly tripled.
Marneuli is the regional capital of Kvemo Kartli, an ethnic Azerbaijani-majority province in eastern Georgia, bordering Armenia and Azerbaijan. The population of Marneuli district is approximately 105,000. Kvemo Kartli was a major industrial area during the Soviet period, but the region saw acute deindustrialization after Georgia gained independence and fell into political and civil strife in the 1990s.