OREANDA-NEWS The Russian Finance Ministry plans to sell 192.1 billion rubles worth of foreign currency and gold under the budget rule from January 16 to February 5, the ministry said in a statement.

Thus, the daily sales volume will increase sharply, amounting to the equivalent of 12.8 billion rubles, which is 2.3 times more than the 5.6 billion planned for the period from December 5 to January 15, according to the materials.

"Based on the previously announced monthly volume of currency sales of 4.62 billion rubles per day until the end of the first half of 2026, the Bank of Russia will eventually sell currency in the amount of 17.42 billion rubles per day, which is 20 percent more than in the previous period," the report says.<url>" comments Natalia Milchakova, a leading analyst at Freedom Finance Global, according to which the ruble "hardly reacted to the decision of the authorities."

On December 26, the central Bank announced that from January to June, as part of operations related to the replenishment and use of funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF), it would sell foreign currency for a specified amount on a daily basis, which, according to analysts, could lead to some weakening of the ruble, which will gradually be felt in the first quarter of 2026.