“To provide resident legal entities (Russian exporters) that directly transfer to non-residents under foreign trade agreements (contracts) concluded with them goods received from other resident legal entities (Russian suppliers) on the basis of supply agreements concluded between Russian exporters and Russian suppliers in pursuance of intergovernmental agreements, the right to transfer funds in foreign currency received from non-residents ... to the accounts of Russian suppliers in authorized banks without the obligatory sale of foreign currency, ”the decree says on the official portal of legal information.

On January 17, Putin signed a decree establishing a temporary procedure for decision-making in large Russian joint-stock companies in the energy, engineering and trade sectors.

Putin noted that the West did not achieve its goals in the sanctions war declared by Russia.