All we know is that 6 500 anti-war protesters have already been arrested in the Russian Federation, the ruble is steadily approaching the centre of the earth, and not only has the Russian central bank taken unprecedented measures to counter this - raising the base rate to 20% - but President Putin is also trying to curb the inflation and buying fever by decree:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the application of special economic measures "in connection with the unfriendly actions of the United States and foreign states and international organisations associated with them". The text of the document was published on the Kremlin website.
Among other things, from 1 March, residents of Russia will not be able to:
- Credit foreign currency to their accounts and deposits opened with foreign banks and financial institutions;
- make transfers of funds to foreign payment service providers using electronic payment instruments (without opening a bank account)
- transfer foreign currency to non-Russian residents under loan agreements." (Meduza.io)
It could get worse, according to Nikolai Arefiyev, a Duma deputy of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF):
"If they block all money abroad, the government will have no choice but to seize the population's deposits to get out of the economic crisis."
This also includes the government's decision just a few minutes ago that Western companies and investors cannot sell their stakes in Russian companies. This was justified on the grounds that they feared their business partners "might make the wrong decision under political pressure".
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