Interview of the Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseyev for radio "Kommersant FM»

Over the past years, we have conducted a series of measures aimed at ensuring the status of a regional reserve currency for the ruble, which involved two objectives. The first - to ensure listing in Russia for foreign issuers, both in shares and in bonds, we had a few instances where foreign companies and issuers, mainly from the CIS countries, entering the Russian market, and obtained listing - this is one side of the coin. And the second - allow the use of the ruble in foreign accounts. This, too, was sent to a number of measures. Now there are no restrictions, plus together with the deputies, we took in the spring of amendments to the legislation that allow resolve legal issues related to the inclusion in the list of the ruble exchange CLS Bank (Bank for International Settlements). On the one hand, and on the other - now some European banks already offer their customers payments in rubles, since there are no restrictions for this is not, and there is a specific customer demand, including on the part of our fellow citizens, who take the opportunity to open accounts for abroad, they want them to be in rubles.