Ominous developments in Georgia and Azerbaijan over the pastmonth suggest that one of the things that the military and other securityapparatuses want is to reestablish the lost Soviet empire, in whole or in part.
Previous inflation calculators have asked how much the user has spent on each of the 12 categories in the pastmonth, but that has presented problems such as many people not knowing the answers and also that things in many categories are bought less than once a month.