“As of November 30, according to reports, we have 5.7 trillion rubles of blocked assets, of which a little more than 20% are assets owned by retail investors,” RIA Novosti quotes her.

According to Shishlyannikova, the situation is very difficult - this factor was taken into account when making a decision to further prohibit unqualified investors from acquiring relevant securities in the future.

Earlier, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said that in the country, as part of anti-Russian sanctions, Russian assets worth 6.7 billion Swiss francs ($6.8 billion) had been frozen by early July.

According to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Western countries have frozen about $330 billion of Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves, assets of Russian companies, organizations and individuals subject to Western sanctions.