“Firstly, we have our own national system of payment cards, which is accepted not only in Russia, but also in a number of other countries.
And the list of these countries is constantly expanding.
Secondly, we got rid of investments in dollar assets, if we talk about the National Welfare Fund.
Third, most of our export deals are already moving away from dollars.
That is, they are calculated in other currencies, these are euro, yuan and ruble.
This is not a new risk for us.
We are already ready for this.
Although we understand that there are no grounds for this, ”said the economist.
He noted that for Russia, such an outcome of events "does not particularly threaten anything."
Earlier, US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said that the US is discussing with its allies the option of sanctions, which is tantamount to complete isolation of Russia from the world financial system in the event of a Russian "invasion" of Ukraine.