Russians waited in long queues outside ATMs on Sunday (Feb 27), worried that new Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine will trigger cash shortages and disrupt payments.
러시아 시민들 패닉..."북한·이란처럼 될까 두렵다" / YTN
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■ 진행 : 김정아 앵커, 박석원 앵커
■ 출연 : 호준석 / 국제부 기자
[앵커]
현장은 생각보다 더 참혹한 모습이고, 지금 러시아의 공세는 더욱더 강해질 것이다, 이런 분석이신데 이런 부분에 대해서 국제사회 경제 제재가 더 효율적으로 진행이 되어야 되는 것 아니냐, 이런 지적도 나오는데 어떻습니까?
[기자]
오늘 외신에 러시아에 있는 한 국민, 한 시민의 인터뷰가 보도됐는데요. ATM, 돈 뽑으러 갔는데 루블화도 안 나오고 달러화도 안 나오더라. 이러다 우리가 이란이나 북한처럼 되는 것 아니냐라고 외신기자한테 얘기한 인터뷰가 보도됐습니다.
러시아는 사실 세계 5위의 외환보유국입니다. 그러니까 돈이 꽤 많이 있고 그리고 서방이 경제 제재해도 스위프트는 못할 것이다, 이런 판단하에 자신감을 가졌었는데 생각보다 예상을 뛰어넘어서 스위프트 제재까지 이루어지고 그러니까 돈이 있지만 서방에 다 묶여 있는 거거든요. 그러니까 당장 큰 곤경에 직면하고 있다고 볼 수 있겠고요.
러시아 사업 다 서방 기업들이 철수하고 있고요. 하늘길까지 다 막았습니다. 그러니까 원래 세르게이 라브로프 외무장관이 제네바에 있는 군축회의에 가서 연설하려고 했는데 못 갔습니다, 외무장관조차도. 그래서 화상으로 연설을 했는데 듣던 사람들이 다 퇴장해버렸죠. 이런 장면들이 지금 모습을 상징적으로 보여주고 있는 것이고요.
애플, 디즈니, 소니 같은 데서는 러시아에서 스파이더맨 같은 영화도 개봉 안 하겠다, 이렇게도 했고 구글, 유튜브 이런 데서도 러시아 관영매체의 것들은 다 차단하고 딱지를 붙여서 선전전에 이용하지 못하도록 하겠다. 그렇게 되고 러시아의 유명한 발레단, 볼쇼이 발레단 런던에서 공연하는 것 취소되고 피파에서는 월드컵에 이번에 2022년에 못 나오게 하고. 그러니까 전방위로 문화, 사회 모든 면에서 다 고립돼가고 있는 양상인 거죠.
이게 러시아 국민들이 어떻게 받아들일 것인가. 이 전쟁이 정말 필요한 전쟁인가? 그리고 우리 러시아인들이 가서 벌써 2000명이나 5000명이 전사했다고 하는데. 그러면 러시아 국민들의 정서는 사실 푸틴한테도 큰 부담입니다. 또 내년 선거를 앞두고 있고 아무리 권력기반이 강하다도 하더라도. 이런 것들도 하나의 변수가 될 것 같습니다.
Ukraine-Russia crisis: People stand in line to use an ATM money machine in Saint Petersburg, Russia (REUTERS)3 min read . Updated: 28 Feb 2022, 10:44
Russians rush to withdraw cash at ATMs as rouble plunges; central bank hikes rates to 20%
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Russians rush to withdraw cash at ATMs as West targets banks over Ukraine
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MOSCOW (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) - Russia’s central bank more than doubled its key interest rate to 20 per cent from 9.5 per cent on Monday (Feb 28) and introduced some capital controls as the country was pummelled by sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine and Russians waited in long queues to withdraw cash outside ATMs.
Facing the risk of a bank run, a rapid sell-off in assets and an almost 30 per cent plunge in the rouble on Monday, the Bank of Russia also banned brokers from selling securities held by foreigners on the Moscow Exchange.
Russian exporters were ordered to start mandatory hard-currency revenue sales and stock trading was temporarily suspended in Moscow.
In another decision that partially reversed a free-floating exchange rate regime in place since 2014, the Russian currency won’t be allowed to breach a certain range unless the central bank shifts the trading corridor.
Moves to block some Russian banks from the Swift global payments system used for trillions’ of dollars of transactions and freeze the Bank of Russia’s reserves are beginning to deal a devastating economic blow.
Russians waited in long queues outside ATMs, worried that bank cards may cease to function, or that banks would limit cash withdrawals.
“Since Thursday, everyone has been running from ATM to ATM to get cash. Some are lucky, others not so much,” St Petersburg resident, Pyotr, who declined to give his last name, said.
The European arm of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, faces failure, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned on Monday, after a run on its deposits.
Sberbank Europe and two other subsidiaries were set to fail, after “significant deposit outflows”,the ECB said. Austria’s Financial Market Authority imposed a moratorium on Sberbank Europe, which is based in the country.
The ECB’s warning extended to Sberbank subsidiaries in Croatia and Slovenia. Sberbank’s branches in Slovenia were closed until Wednesday and services temporarily limited to card transactions with a withdrawal limit of 400 euros a day. The Croatian central bank said depositors at Sberbank would be allowed to withdraw just under 1000 euros a day.
Separately, Deutsche Boerse, the German stock exchange operator, said that it was suspending from trading a number of securities from Russian issuers with immediate effect. The list includes Sberbank and VTB Bank.
Catastrophe
Less than a week after Vladimir Putin ordered his military to invade Ukraine, Russia is at risk of succumbing to the biggest financial crisis of his more than two decades in power. Some warned of catastrophic economic damage now that the US and the European Union have agreed to block access to much of the US$630 billion (S$855 billion) Russia’s central bank has built up as a buffer to protect the economy.
“The most important thing is that the West is freezing the Central Bank’s reserves,” former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov wrote on Twitter. “There is nothing to support the rouble with....Hyperinflation and catastrophe for the economy is not far away.”
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The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt meanwhile rose to a record. For the first time ever, the price of protecting Russia’s debt is no longer being officially quoted in basis points, with protection sellers now demanding payment in advance, signaling perceptions that default might be imminent.
On Monday credit-default swaps (CDSs) insuring US$10 million of the country’s bonds for five years were quoted at about US$4 million upfront and US$100,000 annually, signaling around 56 per cent likelihood of default, according to ICE Data Services. ICE is the main clearing house for European CDS.
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