CPI in Russia at modern low of 6.1 percent MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Russia's statistical office said Tuesday that consumer prices rose 6.1 percent in 2011, a low since the breakup of the Soviet Union. "The consumer price index was 100.4 percent in December and 106.1 percent for the full year, the lowest figure since 1991," RIA Novosti reported the Federal State Statistical Service, Rosstat, said. "For the first time in Russia's [recent] history, we have achieved an unprecedented low level of inflation at slightly over 6 percent," President Dmitry Medvedev said in December in a state of the nation speech. The consumer price index for 2009 and 2010 was 8.8 percent. In 2009, the global financial crisis was blamed. In 2010, a severe drought prompted food prices to spike.