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Account surplus useless
Can they transfer these funds to place like Sri Lanka and Africa do they can purchase good, and fertilizer.Account surplus useless
Russia has already significantly cut gas to EU. it seem gas exports not have that big impact on account surplus.Russia's current account surplus usually shrinks in the summer months when Western Europe doesn't need gas for heating. Indeed, from 2007 to 2021 the June current account averages exactly ZERO. However, this year the surplus is +$28.2 bn, a monster surplus of our own making...
We will see when China is confident about restoring machinery export and investment into Russia. Probably will need to wait until EU sanctions to Russia reducing a little bit.July’s exports to Russia were driven by East Asia. In July, deliveries of goods and services from China to Russia amounted to US$6.7 billion, one and a half times more than in June, but also 22% more than in 2021. For comparison, June imports on the China-Russia route were 17% lower than a year ago. In general, the bilateral trade turnover between the countries for the first seven months of 2022 have amounted to US$97 billion, a 29% increase over same period of 2021. This growth was largely due to a sharp increase in Russian exports to China.
It is easier to restore consumer imports and much more difficult – intermediate (raw materials, materials, components) and investment (equipment). This is due to the severity of Western sanctions on the supply of technological products to Russia and the pressure of the West (primarily the United States) on other countries with the threat of secondary sanctions for helping to circumvent restrictions, Belenkaya stated.
Electronics of Russia will receive unprecedented funding, said Mishustin
August 31, 2022
This is pretty impressive. The overall amount of rubles transacted seems to be the roughly same as pre-war but dollars are being switched to yuan. And Russia switched volume for like 2/3 of transactions to yuan in like just a couple of months time.The Bloomberg chart on Russian currency swaps - RMB versus USD
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This is pretty impressive. The overall amount of rubles transacted seems to be the roughly same as pre-war but dollars are being switched to yuan. And Russia switched volume for like 2/3 of transactions to yuan in like just a couple of months time.
This is just another example showing that the Russian financial system is way more robust than Western analysts gave it credit for.