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US businesses planning to return to Russia despite RCB’s tight monetary policy

Moscow, June 18 (UNI) The business community in the US is far more concerned about the prospect of returning to the Russian market than about the tight monetary policy of the Russian Central Bank, a US investor and co-founder of the PSIMOS Technologies company, Paul Ostling, said in an interview with Sputnik.

On June 6, the Central Bank of Russia lowered its key interest rate for the first time since September 2022 — from a record level of 21% to 20% per annum. The rate had remained at the historical maximum for over seven months, since late October 2022.

"I do not think that US investors weigh or worry very much about the Central Bank’s tight monetary policy at all. They are far more worried about whether they will ever get back here," Ostling said when asked if US businesses were looking to operate under the Central Bank of Russia's current key rate.

He added that if basic problems regarding a return to the Russian market were solved, such as achieving peace in Ukraine and reducing sanctions pressure, Russia could hope to "rationalize the key rate."

"Normalisation of relations should afford both sides the opportunity to reset many policies over time. This would be the big win for Russia from normalization," Ostling said.

In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia needed to regulate the return of Western companies to ensure that the country creates advantages for its domestic enterprises while maintaining the opportunities it has acquired.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said that Moscow would only allow companies that benefit Russia to return.

The current state of US business and investment in Russia is "very poor" and it is impossible to restore them without settling the Ukraine conflict, Paul Ostling said.

After February 2022, the introduction of new sanctions and counter-sanctions against Russia has made it almost impossible for banks, financial institutions and large companies to continue working in the country as before, the investor said.

"We were cut off from the capital markets, the banking payment systems, and billions of dollars and rubles and shares were trapped in the wrong places," Ostling said.

He stressed that today, serious restoration of business relations and investments between Moscow and Washington is impossible without the reduction of sanctions pressure, which requires at least a temporary truce or ceasefire in Ukraine.

"And, in terms of sanctions relief, it is not one or another specific sanction that unties the knot. These sanctions form a 'complex mesh.'



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