The building of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, April 11The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation recommended that Russian companies, when making debt payments, first of all settle accounts with Russian investors, and only then with foreign holders of securities, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Izvestia. According to him, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation sees cases when Western banks the receipt of payments for external Eurobonds of companies are guided by double standards. «Namely: external creditors are paid in full, money does not reach Russian securities holders. This situation has developed over the past two weeks,» Siluanov said. , and the balance of funds for external creditors should already be sent to the clearing agencies of Western countries,” he said. Siluanov considers it inexpedient to completely prohibit companies from paying foreign debts in foreign currency. «The goose that lays the golden eggs must pay its debts,» the head of the Ministry of Finance said. defaultAuthorities, he said, created a special commission, which includes representatives of the Bank of Russia, senior officials of the government and the presidential administration. «The commission is considering the payment of debts by our companies, mainly exporters,» said Siluanov. In Russia, there are now restrictions on the withdrawal of currency abroad, but the authorities make exceptions to service the external obligations of exporters. «We receive such requests, and if we see that export earnings are preserved, that the products of these exporters are in demand by Western countries, that they are purchased, we, as a rule, recommend and allow payments on corporate obligations,» the minister said.
The Ministry of Finance does not plan to enter the borrowing markets, Siluanov said
