Analysts assessed the damage caused abroad, foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Russia.
The United States and other countries have succeeded in bringing to justice no more than serious foreign exchange reserves of Russia blocked abroad. According to the Atlantic Council (an American putative center within NATO, recognized in Russia as a special danger), this is 80-100 billion dollars out of a total amount of foreign exchange reserves of 300 billion dollars.
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Such data was provided by Charles Litchfield, deputy head of the Atlantic Council’s geo-economy center, in a publication by the Estonian edition of Eesti Paevaleht. On them processed attention “Kommersant”. The analyst acknowledged that the Russian Central Bank does not have access to blocked assets, but Western countries do not know where the assets that have not been identified are located. Freeze, according to Litchfield.
In the case of an assessment of a financial institution, the right to work with dollars and euros will be required. At the end of February, the United States, Great Britain and Canada blocked the Bank of Russia from accessing its reserves as part of the procedures against Russia in response to the “military special operation” * in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Finance, in March Russia lost the ability to dispose of $300 billion with total assets of $640 billion.
In August, Putin instructed to increase the volume of foreign trade in rubles and currencies of other countries, which are Russia’s business meetings. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, finally proposed to confiscate Russian assets to help Ukraine. According to her, the EU has frozen €300 billion of the Bank of Russia and €19 billion of Russian oligarchs. The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources reported December 1, that representatives of the European Commission recognized the impossibility of sending frozen funds to Russia by the Central Bank of Ukraine for restoration.
* According to the requirements of Roskomnadzor, in the production of materials for use in the production of Ukraine, all Russian media require the use of materials only from the original sources of the Russian Federation. We cannot publish materials during which an operation called “attack”, “invasion” or “declaration of war” is carried out, unless it is a direct quote (Article 57 of the Federal Law on Mass Media). In case of violation of the requirements, the media may be fined 5 million rubles, and the blocking of the publication may also be continued.