“We are faced with unprecedented threats of sanctions from the United States, which are transferred from the information field to the phase of preparing a bill, submitting it to Congress ... Against this background, the weakening of the ruble against the dollar, the euro is, I would say, emotional in nature,” - the economist said.
Changes in exchange rates, in his opinion, are a kind of "emotional reaction".
Until now, there have been many events of a global scale that could affect the stability of our currency, but there was no strong subsidence of the ruble, the expert noted.
"You have to understand that the sanctions that have been introduced against Russia, which can be imposed, the United States increasingly restricts the desire of countries - not only Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, but also others - to use the US dollar," the interlocutor told RT ...
He also stressed that the dollar is becoming a high-risk asset.
Earlier it became known that the euro rate during the auction exceeded 86 rubles, the dollar rose above 75 rubles.