OREANDA-NEWS The design of the new banknote with a value of 1000 rubles will be finalized, its release in the current design is suspended. This was announced by the official Telegram channel of the Bank of Russia. The reason for this decision is not specified. The regulator stressed that the banknote has not yet been widely circulated.

The Central Bank showed new banknotes of 5000 and 1000 rubles on Monday, October 16. The obverse of the five-thousandth bill depicts the stele "Europe—Asia" in Yekaterinburg, on the reverse - the composition "Tale of the Urals" from Chelyabinsk.

For the second banknote, the Nikolskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin on the obverse and the Museum of the History of the Statehood of the Tatar People and the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, the Syuyumbike Tower on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin, the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography in Ufa on the reverse were selected. It was the flip side that caused the scandal.

The fact is that a Muslim crescent is installed on the Syuyumbike tower, and the museum, which was built as an Orthodox church, does not have crosses. The images on the banknote correspond to what buildings look like in the real world, but the Orthodox public initially thought that the regulator could have deliberately gone to forgery.

Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate Vakhtang Kipshidze confirmed that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) does not see a problem in such a design of banknotes. After that, other commentators began to resent the choice of the museum, noting that in Kazan it was possible to find Orthodox churches to be placed next to the tower.