According to TASS, the minister said that everything happens according to the forecast of the department.
“If you look at our forecast, which was originally, - he assumed that in the second half of the year our rate will be in the range of 65-66 (rubles per dollar. - RT ), which we now de facto reached. That is, here, rather, we could talk about the overly strong ruble that we saw at the beginning of summer, ”he said.
On August 2, the dollar exchange rate during the auction exceeded the mark of 65 rubles for the first time since June 7.
In March, expert Timur Nigmatullin, in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today”, gave a forecast regarding the average ruble exchange rate during 2019.