MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group said on Thursday its net retail revenue has risen 20 percent in year-on-year terms since the beginning of the year.

Like-for-like sales were up 0.5 percent compared with the first quarter of last year, the company's Chief Financial Officer Svetlana Demyashkevich told analysts on a conference call.

(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Olga Sichkar; editing by Andrey Ostroukh)