The document entitled “On the repatriation by residents participating in foreign economic activity of foreign currency and the currency of the Russian Federation” was published on the portal of legal information.
By the same decree, Putin allowed the government commission to impose restrictions on the replenishment of foreign accounts.
“The provisions ... apply if the crediting of foreign currency and the implementation of money transfers are associated with the transfer by residents of funds received in the form of dividends on shares of Russian joint-stock companies or in the distribution of profits of Russian limited liability companies, economic partners and production cooperatives” , the decree says.
The transfer of foreign currency by residents of the country to their accounts or deposits in foreign banks was prohibited from March 1.