“In fact, we have been granted a deferred payment for a year ... not even for a calendar year, but more ... And we are not making more than $ 1 billion of payments that we had to make, we are not making now,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Seliverstov called this a friendly step on the part of Russia as a partner.
In March, Russia postponed the repayment of obligations on state loans to Belarus for a period of five to six years.
Earlier, Moscow and Minsk approved changes to the terms of a number of intergovernmental agreements between the two countries, including an agreement on a Russian state financial loan.