"The volume of international reserves as of December 16 amounted to $581.7 billion, an increase of $5.2 billion, or 0.9%, over the week," the statement said.
It is clarified that the increase in reserves occurred under the influence of a positive revaluation.
Earlier, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the external conditions for the country's economy have changed for a long time, if not forever.