Russia has reduced investments in US securities to a minimum mark
A report published by the US Treasury said that at the end of July this year, Russia had "on hand" US securities worth about 8,5 billion dollars. As of June 2019, Russia’s investments amounted to 10,85 billion. Thus, according to estimates, Russia reduced investments by 2,35 billion. Of this amount, 6,239 billion falls on long-term securities and 2,262 - on short-term ones.
Note that in recent years, Russia has been systematically getting rid of American securities. The maximum of Russian investments over the last 12 years was observed in the 2010 year - then they exceeded 170 billion. At the beginning of the 2018 year, their volume fell to 96,9 billion, in April investments fell to 48,7 billion, in May even to 14,9 billion, in June - 10,85 billion. and now they reached 8,5 billion dollars. This is the minimum amount since the spring of 2007. At the same time, Russia is steadily increasing its share of gold in the structure of international reserves - in July of this year it amounted to 101,9 billion dollars.
In 2018, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, explained that Russia was withdrawing funds from US debt due to the "redistribution of international reserves." According to experts, this is due to increasing tension between the US and Russia and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions.
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