The World Bank has disclosed data on the debt of countries to other states, including Russia. Information at the end of 2019 is posted on the organization’s website.
The largest state debtor of Russia at that time was Belarus from 8.1 billion dollars, while at the end of 2020 an agreement on the provision of Minsk an additional one billion dollars was signed. Also more than a billion dollars of Russia owed Bangladesh, Venezuela, India, Vietnam and Yemen.
Main Africa must be 973 million dollars in Moscow. They became Somalia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Zambia, Sudan and Tanzania, and most loans were taken by them in the days of the USSR. Separately, the list is worth Egypt from $ 495.5 million dollars.
Total at the end of 2019, about 30 developing countries have been near Russia almost 22.9 billion dollars.
RBC explains that the Ministry of Finance of Russia does not publish such information. The State Code program is described by secret applications to the federal budget.
March 23, the manager of the investment and consulting company Capital Economics Sasha Chorley called investors to give to debt to countries from all over the world, noting that now the best moment for this over the past six years. According to him, it is the market of government bonds at the moment is the most attractive for investors – both private and institutional. In recent weeks, there is a sharp increase in the profitability of state securities of many countries, primarily 10-year treasury bonds of the United States, traditionally considered a reliability reference.
March 16 reported that Russia in January 2021 increased the volume of investments in the US public debt to $ 6.145 billion. Now the share of long-term securities accounts for $ 2.744 billion, and short-term – 3,401 billion.