USA and EU countries currently exclude the possibility of off Russia from the interbank system SWIFT in the new framework of possible punishments, the Agency reports referring to the bureaucrats that are close to the situation.

trip hazards Russian credit organizations from the SWIFT system, which is involved in no less than 10 thousand financial institutions in 210 countries and through which payment of the job for at least 6 trillion dollars, began to actively pronounced by the Western politicians in autumn 2014.

According to Bloomberg, in the opinion of the US and the EU, disabling the RF from SWIFT " will result in too much unpredictable damage ". According to the bureaucrats, the government of America and the States of the European Union considered this option, however, prefer to use other options and to prevent disconnection of the Russian Federation of the interbank payment system that will undermine legitimate trade (these States approx.) With Russia."

The organization managing the SWIFT system, said in October that is under pressure from a number of countries, insisting on its accession to the sanctions, however, does not want to succumb.

Against Russia, the West has imposed a series of sanctions, because the Ukrainian authorities, as well as the United States and the European Union has repeatedly accused Moscow of meddling in Ukraine's Affairs. Russia denies it and calls such accusations are unacceptable. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to domestic conflict and not privy to the events in the Southeast, is interested in Ukraine to overcome the political and economic crisis.


today, SWIFT is the most widely used worldwide interbank system of transfer of financial information. Every day SWIFT network billing jobs total estimated cost not less than six trillion dollars. A day in the Russian Federation is sent through SWIFT about 360 thousand messages.

trip hazards Russian credit organizations from the system of interbank transfers SWIFT began to sound in the fall, it said.

the Russian authorities responded harshly to a Possible shutdown of the country from SWIFT, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in this case. Since December, the Central Bank launched a domestic analogue SWIFT.

The possible disconnection from Russia SWIFT has been controversial in the West. So, the Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma said, because it is.

Russia is not the only country that the European Union threatened to disconnect from the SWIFT system. In 2012, the West in the form of a measure of pressure on Iran has blocked Iran from access to SWIFT. Anyway, the financial system of Iran did not collapse, although the state has faced a number of difficulties in conducting payment transactions.

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