date:Nov 28, 2013
es (i.e. direct consumption by households for their own use) and a greater increase in use by restaurant and catering and other outlets. The Russian State Statistical Service (Rosstat) publishes a per capita home-use domestic consumption number and it shows dramatic declines during Soviet times, and a more gradual decline in recent years. For example, in metropolitan areas this home-use per capita number has fallen from 109 kg per year in 1980 to only 60 kg in 2012. In rural areas the decline is