In March, Kyiv can receive a loan of the IMF if it quickly agrees on the conditions

The position of Russia when voting in the IMF to provide a loan to Ukraine will depend on the program under which the Fund will allocate money, but Moscow does not intend to be removed from discussing this topic, the director of the Department of International Financial Relations of the Ministry of Finance of Russia Andrei Bokarev said in an interview with the Prime Agency.

“The position will be formed, including taking into account the conditions under which this program will be made. ... We will take part in the discussion, there is no talk of some kind of self -removal,” he said. “It is another matter that we can affect only in a certain sense: the decision of the board of directors is made by a majority of votes, and on these issues the consensus is not required here. I think that we have less than 3% of the votes in the IMF, to talk about, to talk about, to talk about the same. That even if we take the opposite position, we will be able to somehow block the adoption of certain decisions, of course, we do not have to. ”

The head of the Department of the Ministry of Finance believes that the allocation of the IMF loan will not affect the ability of Ukraine to respond to its current debt obligations, including Russia. "The fund does not give money to refinance the debt. This option, I think, should not be considered," he said.

The IMF can soften the conditions for providing a loan to Ukraine, Bokarev believes, but will not refuse them at all. This applies to the requirements for increasing energy tariffs for the population.

“Yes, maybe in the current crisis situation, we will not talk about the most rigidly and as quickly as possible to increase prices for the population for electricity, and so on, especially since it is fraught with social complications, but no one will refuse it,” he said in an interview with the agency.

The refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to increase energy prices and utilities caused the termination of the previous program for the assistance of the IMF to Ukraine in 2010. Today in Ukraine, both industry and individuals pay only about 20% of the real cost of services, and the situation when compensation for costs for the rest of 80% is forced to take the state from the point of view of the IMF.

Recall that in addition to the IMF, the United States plan to provide Ukraine with credit guarantees, and also consider the possibility of providing other types of direct financial assistance to Kiev . The official decision, however, has not yet been made, the United States and the EU present its conditions before starting to supply it with money.

Russia also hastily revives investment projects in Crimea at a cost of $ 5 billion. Their list was compiled even under Yanukovych, and now, after the change of power, the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, they took them into development against the background of pro -Russian sentiments on the peninsula. True, businessmen are not eager to invest in projects until the situation in Ukraine is stabilized.

The new authorities of Ukraine have already stated that the country has been brought to bankruptcy, its debt reached 35 billion dollars.