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The decision of the event to freeze the reserves of the Central Bank of the Russ...

Gap in sanctions. What a significant pressure lever on Russia's economy has not yet used the event - an economist

The decision of the event to freeze the reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation was only a half -pass, Serhiy Alexashenko, former Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and former first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank. He expressed this opinion in an interview with HB.

"A year ago, I believed that the freezing of central bank reserves was a very serious measure [sanctions against the Russian Federation]," said Alexashenko, who now lives in the United States. "But I always said that it would only work with the freezing of Russian banks' correspondent accounts.

" Video of the day, according to him, if the US and European authorities have only frozen the reserves of the Central Bank, but not correspondent accounts of banks, "it will not have any influence on the state of the Russian economy. " To achieve maximum effect, it was necessary to completely isolate all Russian banks, convinced Alexashenko. In response to the question of why the event did not decide on such a step, the economist said: “I do not know why they did not.