“If there is an urgent need to get rubles, of course, you need to sell foreign exchange reserves.

If not, then there is no need to rush.

We see that now the restrictions are gradually easing, therefore, nothing will prevent you from selling dollars later, ”he said in an interview with the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.

Nikolaev admitted that the trend of the weakening dollar exchange rate could change and the currency could be exchanged at a more favorable rate.

Earlier, Natalya Milchakova, a leading analyst at Freedom Finance, spoke about the factors affecting the ruble exchange rate in an interview with FAN.