Messages about accelerated work on the creation of a common currency of Russia and Belarus are fake and have nothing to do with reality. Thus, the press service of the National Bank of Belarus reacted to the question of the Interfax agency.
Prior to this, the Telegram channel of the People’s Anti-Crisis Administration, created by Pavel Latushko, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian Opposition, announced the intensification of work on the single currency.
In the message, citing sources in the National Bank, it was indicated that a roadmap is being prepared, but in what form the proposal is being implemented is not yet clear. We can talk about both the creation of emission centers and the transition to Russian rubles, that is, “the complete dependence of the country’s financial system on the Kremlin.”
Earlier, the Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that the creation of a single currency of the Union State countries is inevitable and there is no alternative to it.
According to him, this development of events is prompted by the special human relations between the inhabitants of Russia and Belarus, as well as the complete imprisonment of the Belarusian economy on its partner.
Before the presidential elections on August 9, 2020, the current president of the republic, Alexander Lukashenko, hinted that Russia was threatening the country’s independence. After the vote, which ended in unprecedented protests, Lukashenka turned to accusations against Poland and the Baltic countries. Later, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he agreed on new loans, some of which have already been allocated to Belarus.