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BREAKING: Russia defaulted on foreign debt today for the first time since 1918
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Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors. For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed. It’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast. The nation’s eurobonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of March, the central bank’s foreign reserves remain frozen, and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system. But given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years. [ link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83757670 So youre saying that Russia hasnt had to make interest payments and now has that money to spend on their own country because western politicians shut down avenues of payment methods allowed to Russia.... Am I the only one who thinks this isn't bad for Russia?
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