It is reported by TASS.
“Our ruble is overstrengthened, 55-60 rubles per dollar is too strong a rate.
Especially against the backdrop of deflation and high interest rates, ”the agency quotes Belousov.
He called the optimal exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar today.
“An equilibrium, comfortable exchange rate for our industry is from 70 to 80 rubles per dollar,” the TASS interlocutor noted.
In addition, according to the Vice President, the Bank of Russia does not target the ruble market.
“Inflation, which really stood, has now given way to problems related primarily to the overvalued exchange rate and the need to stimulate production,” he concluded.
Earlier, Igor Safonov, an expert at the Institute for Development Center of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, predicted a further slowdown in inflation in the country.