Russia got rid of the largest package of US debt securities
For the first time in a long time, the report of the Ministry of Finance of the United States of Russia is not among the 33-s major holders of US debt. It is known that at the beginning of the summer of 2018, the amount of US debt, which remains in the “disposal” of Russia, fell below the 15 billion mark. Thus, only for the two months preceding the specified period, Russia got rid of the American debt securities for an impressive amount of 80 billion dollars.
At the end of last year, Russia contained US Treasury bonds worth over 102 billion.
For comparison: now Russia contains American debt in an amount less than, for example, than Kazakhstan.
Among the largest holders of US debt are China (1,18 trillion dollars), Japan (1,048 trillion) and Ireland (0,3 trillion).
Getting rid of the overly impressive amount of US debt securities actually indicates an increase in economic security. After all, this kind of investment has recently turned into an object for the Russian Federation, to which ideologists of anti-Russian sanctions in the United States could have had an eye on at any moment.
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