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Russia to adopt tough position if Ukraine defaults: PM Medvedev
24.05.15 04:46 f.USSR

Russia would adopt a tough position if Ukraine decided not to pay off debts owed to Moscow by its previous government, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast by Russian TV on Saturday.

Russia has spoken out against a new Ukrainian law allowing a moratorium on foreign debt repayments, threatening to take Ukraine to court if it fails to repay $3 billion that Russia lent it in 2013.

In his interview, Medvedev called the new law "contradictory".

"Probably they are talking about private debts, but at the same time they are hinting that they arent prepared to pay off the debts of the (former Ukrainian president Viktor) Yanukovich government," Medvedev said.

"If it is actually formulated in this way this would undoubtedly be a default of Ukraine ... We would adopt as tough a position as possible in this case and defend our national interests," Medvedev told the Vesti on Saturday program on state TV channel Rossiya.

He added that any such refusal would "undoubtedly influence the process of their agreement with the International Monetary Fund" - a seeming reference to IMF rules that require financial assistance recipients to honor debts to other governments.

Medvedev also said that Russia was "not indifferent" to debts owed by Ukraine to private Russian creditors, as the bulk of these debts are owed to banks with state ownership.

"We will collect (the debts)," Medvedev said. "Banks will use all instruments that exist, including, naturally, judicial procedures," he said.

"PREDICTABLE" ROUBLE

Medvedev also said his government had an interest in seeing a predictable rate for the rouble, but he defended the central banks policy of allowing the rouble to float, saying it was "optimal" to achieve a balance in the forex market between supply and demand.

Analysts have been speculating that the authorities are concerned the rouble has strengthened too much after the dollar fell below 50 rubles per dollar -- a large rebound from the rubles all-time low of 80 in December.

Medvedev said the current exchange rate was "practically at the present moment the real value of the rouble." But he added: "Some economists consider that this is even excessive strengthening."

 

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