According to the forecast, persisting restrictions aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus in a significant number of countries restrain the growth of the economies of their trading partners.

Alexander Novak stressed that as a driving force of the global economy the energy sector should be an outrider in terms of effective crisis overcoming and subsequent recovery.

Lenders’ holdings of precious metals now worth $7.5 billion.

The fiscal burden on excess income, in resource sectors primarily, has increased.

Earlier, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund said that the fund was at the final stage of negotiations with South Korea on the possibility of manufacturing Russian vaccine against the coronavirus Sputnik V.

Flights to these countries will be performed once a week.

The government also decided to approve the draft guidelines for the unified state monetary policy for 2021 and the period of 2022-2023.

RDIF has also reached a number of agreements with China.

Finance Minister Anton Siuanov emphasized that the privileges provided do not reflect the real degree of depletion of the fields, the calculations are still based on information based on data for 2006.

Deliveries are expected to start in November 2020.