The annual inflation rate reached 3.2% in March, its highest level for 17 years.
If energy and food costs are excluded, the annual inflation rate stands at 1.8%.
Higher import prices, largely the product of a weaker rouble, pushed Russia's annual inflation rate to 14% in March.
Zimbabwe has struggled to turn around an economic crisis marked by 80 percent unemployment and an annual inflation rate that analysts believe has topped 45-hundred percent.
