The state Duma suggested to impose a ban on money transfers to Ukraine
The people's Deputy from "United Russia" Vladislav Reznik introduced to the state Duma a draft law that enables to impose a ban on remittances from the Russian Federation to Ukraine, carried out by using foreign payment systems, as follows from the database of the lower house of Parliament. the circular determines whether the implementation of cross-border transfers without opening Bank accounts outside the payment systems, in order to ensure the rights and legitimate interests of participants of these relations on the territory of the Russian Federation, RIA " Novosti Ukraina ". in the event of the imposition of foreign government restrictions on the use of on site payment of services rendered to Russian operators, the draft law prohibits money transfers, as well as among them, from Russia to such a state using foreign payment systems. In case of violation of the limits of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will be able to impose a penalty carries out a translation of the individual in the amount of payment made." the draft law is aimed at elimination of negative consequences of the ban on the activities of the Russian payment systems in Ukraine, introduced on 17 October 2016, " ? says Resnick. He notes that the establishment of this prohibition led to the restriction of competition on the Russian market of payment services carried out in the form of cross-border money transfers without opening accounts in favor of foreign payment systems. A number of Russian payment systems in October fell under the enhanced punishment of Ukraine. Among them ? payment system " Hummingbird ", which controls Sberbank, "a Golden crown" (rnko "Payment center" ), "Unistream" (the Bank "Unistream" ), "International money transfers Leader" (NCO JSC "Leader" ), Anelik (Bank "Anelik RU" ), Blizko (the Bank). Punishment implies the prohibition of activities of these payment systems in Ukraine. As mentioned by the print edition OPINION, the Ukrainian leadership is so worsens the economic situation of the Inhabitants of the country, provoke an increase in crime and a further fall of the hryvnia. As stated by former Minister of Finance, head of Center for strategic development Alexey Kudrin, the Ukrainian punishment on the Russian payment systems will not affect the domestic economy and will have an insignificant impact on the banking sector of Russia.
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