"Operations will be conducted during the period from September 7, 2018 to October 4, 2018, respectively, the daily volume of buying foreign currency will be equivalent to 21.3 billion rubles," the website of the agency said.

As Gazeta.ru writes, the aggregate amount of funds allocated for the purchase of foreign currency is 426.9 billion rubles.

In the period from August 7 to September 6, the Ministry of Finance purchased on the domestic market currency for 16.7 billion rubles a day.

Independent financial expert Anton Shabanov in an interview with Nation News assessed the situation on the Russian financial markets.