Sales of foreign currency by the Russian Ministry of Finance in February will amount to 226.8 billion rubles.

Sales of foreign currency and gold by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in February 2026 will amount to 226.8 billion rubles. This was announced on February 4 by the press service of the department.

"The total amount of funds from the sale of foreign currency and gold will amount to 226.8 billion rubles. The operations will be conducted from February 6, 2026 to March 5, 2026, respectively, the daily volume of sales of foreign currency and gold will amount to the equivalent of 11.9 billion rubles," the statement on the ministry's website says.

The decision is related to the expected deficit in oil and gas revenues of the federal budget in February, which is projected at 209.4 billion rubles. The total deviation of the actually received oil and gas revenues from the expected volume in January amounted to 17.4 billion rubles.

Nothing has changed: even in a stressful scenario, the dollar exchange rate will not become triple-digit.

Why will the ruble gradually weaken and how can it react to the Ukrainian settlement?

On February 2, Spartak Sobolev, head of the Alfa-Forex Investment Strategy Research Department, predicted the movement of the ruble exchange rate this week in the range of 74.50–79.50 per dollar, 88-93 per euro and 10.70–11.40 per yuan. He noted that the recovery of the US dollar in the global foreign exchange market has so far held it back from further strengthening. The market will keep an eye on geopolitics and prepare for the February meeting of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the rate.

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