The Bank of Russia on 11 December 2015 decided to keep the base interest rate unchanged at 11%, thus indicating that the bank will not move forward with easing monetary policy. Russia's Central Bank on 14 December resumed 12-month foreign exchange repo auctions with a view to pushing down demand...

Over the period March 2015 – February 2016, the growth rate of prices declined to 8.1%, while the corresponding index for February 2015 – January 2016 amounted to 9.8%. As demonstrated by the results of a survey published by the Bank of Russia, in February the median inflation expectation...

In late February 2022, the EU countries and the USA put in place sanctions against the Bank of Russia, which imply freezing of international reserve assets. As a result, about 50% of the reserves ($300 bn of the $630 bn available as of February 1, 2022) were affected by the sanctions.Countries...