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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Kremlin will take legal action if Russia pushed into default, minister threatens

Russia's finance minister, Anton Siluanov
Russia's finance minister, Anton Siluanov, says Russia has taken ‘all the necessary steps’ to pay its foreign creditors in foreign currency and roubles. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Russia’s finance minister has said the Kremlin will take legal action if the west tries to force it to default on its sovereign debt as part of sanctions placed on the country after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

In comments hitting back against US, UK and EU-led sanctions, Anton Siluanov told the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper that Russia had taken “all the necessary steps” to pay its international creditors.

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