OREANDA-NEWS Russia's international reserves decreased by 0.2 percent. This is reported on the official website of the Bank of Russia.

According to him, at the end of the day on August 30, international reserves amounted to 613.5 billion US dollars. Thus, they decreased by one billion dollars in a week. The regulator explains what happened by the multidirectional influence of positive revaluation and transactions with funds of the National Welfare Fund.

Earlier, the regulator reported that, as of August 23, reserves amounted to $ 614.5 billion. Then the figures of a week ago were exceeded by 4.6 billion. The achieved level turned out to be the highest since February 25, 2022.

Experts from The Economist magazine suggested that Russia will use up its financial reserves in five years.