US Set To Block Russian Debt Payments, Pushing Moscow Closer To Historic Default Part of the "all options" pressure campaign...

Every Single Time

Russia can just put the money is escrow.

In other words "Russia. Russia. Russia."

Sounds familiar.

Demonrats master is Satan: Father of Lies.

God save us.

NATO stupidity is pushing for war.
Let Biden send his idiot son

The rating agencies are just extensions of the US government, like SWIFT. They are used as political tools.

They hardly have any dept, australia has x15 more.

Same here but i'll only take a hit.

Right now, Putin is King.

stop hating ! putin is winning :) and there is nothing you butt hurt idiots can do about it !

This is a signal from Trump to Putin saying "Good Job"!

Soooo, the united states is blocking other countries from receiving their income now?

US is determined to get nuked.

Let's hope Putin's rockets are accurate enough to just hit DC and not get any on the rest of us. :)

Another limp dick move by diaper boy and his criminal backers.

Do you get paid or do you lie for free?

Exactly.

You mean letting a country out of it's debts by forcing them to default isn't a good strategy? I'm shocked.

But I thought Ukraine was beating back the cancer ridden Putin and his troops?

Why does NATO need to keep escalating if the media is telling the truth?

Laughing at you, you fucking grocery clerk.

You stupid mf, eat shit and die. I hate your motherfucking guts, because I can.

It's just a matter of time. Sooner or later.

Russia is going down big-time.

Putin really F***** things up for their country.

And yet we asked them for a cease fire, fuck the USGov, and anybody supporting this shit.

Whats their debt like.
What a mindless fool.

Is it accepting payment is not "Russian"'default. It's usa neglect of its economic and legal obligations to its own countrymen.
Usa is ran by pedo*holes and illiterate idiots.

This is why your country is going down the drain. Where the fuck are you from, the stone ages?

Biden goes to hell before Putin.

Don't you think it's 83 days that NATO can't beat a weak Russia that has a GDP of half a California?
Russia's previous war with Western fascism lasted 4+ years (1941-1945).
This is for your information - obviously you didn't go to school or serve in the Army.


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The man-made "default" of Russia, organized by the West, may become the cause of litigation. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said this in an interview with Izvestia.

"The Russian Federation has tried in good faith to pay off its foreign creditors by transferring appropriate amounts in foreign currency in payment of our debt. Nevertheless, the conscious policy of Western countries is to artificially create a man-made default by all means," the minister said.

According to him, all the actions of Western countries - the blocking of foreign currency accounts of Russia, obstacles in making payments that were intended to settle with bondholders - contribute to the fact that Russia could not pay its debts. "Nevertheless, even in such conditions, we paid the eurobond holders who are residents of the Russian Federation the payments due to them in rubles. We did the same with regard to payments on Eurobonds to foreign investors. We used the presidential decree and transferred ruble funds to a specially opened account in the Russian depository in the ruble equivalent," said the head of the Ministry of Finance.
He stressed that foreign holders of the Russian government debt have access to this money and can spend it, for example, on buying new securities of the Ministry of Finance, the tax calculations "and a number of other operations.

Foreign holders of securities will also be able to convert ruble funds into foreign currency, but the position of the Russian Finance Ministry is that "this can be done after the unfreezing of Russia's foreign currency accounts is ensured."

"If there is an economic and financial war against our country, we are forced to respond, nevertheless fulfilling all our obligations. If they won't let us do it in currency, we do it in rubles," he concluded.

According to Siluanov, Western countries, having banned the use of frozen funds of the Russian Federation to repay the country's obligations to foreign creditors, thereby punished their own investors.

To the question of "Izvestia" about the readiness of Russia to sue if the West refuses to consider the actions of the country as a timely repayment of debt and considers them as a default, the head of the Russian Finance Ministry replied in the affirmative.

"Of course, we will sue, because we have taken all necessary steps for investors to receive their payments," he said. - "We'll show the court our payment statements, confirming our efforts to pay in foreign currency and rubles.

He acknowledged that "it will not be an easy process." "The current crisis has shown that all the basic Western foundations based on democracy, inviolability of private property and other Western values are crumbling, so we are also questioning the objectivity of their judicial system," Siluanov explained.

Regarding payments on debts of the corporate sector, he noted that a commission has now been created on the issue of debt service of companies with the participation of representatives of the Bank of Russia, senior officials of the government and the presidential administration.

"The commission considers issues of payment of debts by our companies, mainly exporters. When we receive such appeals, and if we see that export earnings are preserved, that the products of these exporters are in demand in Western countries, that they are purchased, we usually recommend and allow the payment of corporate debts," said the minister.

"At the same time, we see that in this case, too, Western banks are guided by double standards when receiving payments for foreign eurobonds of companies, namely: they pay to external creditors in full, while money does not reach Russian holders of securities. This situation has developed over the past two weeks. In this case, we recommend that before paying foreign liabilities, we first pay our paperholders, and then send the rest of the money to foreign creditors to the clearing agencies of Western countries. There are certain nuances here, too, but it is a fair approach, when we first and foremost ensure the interests of our security holders," Siluanov said. [link to www.banki.ru (secure)]
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MOSCOW, May 17 - RIA Novosti. The EU has almost exhausted its options for imposing sanctions against Russia, developing a seventh package of anti-Russian measures will be extremely difficult, Euractiv portal reported, citing an unnamed European diplomat.
"If it's such a mess with Russian oil now, imagine what will happen with the proposal to ban gas ... (Developing) a seventh package of sanctions against Moscow will be extremely difficult ... we are already very close to running out of options. What will the seventh package include?" the source said after the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Russian Federation.

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Anti-Russian sanctions are only effective on paper, Orban said
According to him, despite continued progress in negotiations with Hungary to override a veto on the EU proposal for an embargo on Russian oil, the atmosphere at the European ministers' meeting indicated that "we have even taken a step backward."
That said, according to the diplomat, an agreement between the European Commission and Budapest is highly likely after the European Union executive presents its plan for rejecting Russian energy resources on Wednesday.
"No one is interested in taking this issue to the level of an EU summit ... (Hungarian Prime Minister) Viktor Orban knows that there will be enormous pressure on him there, so he also wants to find a solution before then," he said. [link to ria.ru (secure)]

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