MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian
government's foreign debt, including liabilities of the former
Soviet Union, declined 2.7% in January-March 2009 to $39.5
billion, the Finance Ministry reported on Tuesday.
However, exchange rate differences mean that when
calculated in euros, the government's foreign debt increased
3.8% to 29.9 billion euros, the ministry said.
Non-restructured debts to official creditors that are
parties to the Paris Club of creditor nations declined $100
million to $1.3 billion in the reporting period, the ministry
said.
Debts to official creditors outside the Paris Club ($1.9
billion), former Communist bloc countries ($1.4 billion) and
also former Soviet debts to foreign commercial creditors ($1.2
billion) were unchanged in January-March 2009, the ministry
said.
Also unchanged in the reporting period were outstanding
government domestic foreign currency-denominated bonds (OVGVZ)
at $1.8 billion and Russia's foreign currency denominated
government guarantees at $0.6 billion.
The Russian government's liabilities to international
financial institutions shrank by $300 million to $4.3 billion,
and the amount of Russia's outstanding Eurobonds declined from
$27.7 billion as of January 1 to $27 billion as of April 1, the
ministry said.
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