External Debt of the Russian Federation in Domestic and Foreign Currency

	December 2007	March 2008	June 2008	September 2008	December 2008
Total	471.0	484.6	535.7	548.2	479.9
Foreign currency	368.2	377.4	407.7	425.9	396.1
Domestic currency	102.8	107.2	128.1	122.3	83.8
General Government	37.4	36.9	34.7	32.6	29.5
Foreign currency	36.6	36.3	34.2	32.0	29.1
Domestic currency	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4
Monetary Authorities	9.0	4.1	4.2	10.2	2.8
Foreign currency¹	7.1	1.6	0.9	6.9	0.0
Domestic currency	1.9	2.6	3.3	3.4	2.8
Banks (excluding debt liabilities to direct investors and to direct investment enterprises)	162.5	170.0	191.3	196.4	164.6
Foreign currency	128.3	132.6	148.1	151.7	135.8
Domestic currency	34.1	37.4	43.3	44.7	28.8
Other sectors (excluding debt liabilities to direct investors and to direct investment enterprises)^{2, 4}	235.3	246.1	272.9	276.2	250.4
Foreign currency	178.5	188.3	205.4	215.6	208.9
Domestic currency³	56.7	57.8	67.5	60.7	41.5
Banks and other sectors - debt liabilities to direct investors and to direct investment enterprises	26.9	27.5	32.7	32.8	32.7
Foreign currency	17.6	18.7	19.2	19.8	22.3
Domestic currency	9.3	8.9	13.5	13.0	10.4


Notes:	Only non-resident holdings of government securities are reported. The data are presented at face value.

¹ Indebtedness on repos is recorded.
² From the beginning of 2007 indebtedness on repos is included.
³ Included is market value of preferred shares owned by nonresidents. Preferred shares are classified as part of external debt owing to the obligation of the issuer to pay dividends on them under the stipulation that the issuer does not assume liability to buy the shares back at market price.
⁴ From the beginning of 2007 promissory notes of Russian non-banking corporations held by non-residents are included.

For more specified statistics on this issue as well as analytical comments, summary methodology, brief description of data sources and data revision, please apply to the quarterly publication "Balance of Payments and External Debt of the Russian Federation" which is placed in External Sector’s Statistics section in Russian on this web site upon it's availability.

Updated December 31, 2009.