The Russian currency has updated the anti-record of the last two years. AT 9. 30 Moscow time on Thursday, August 9, the dollar rate on the Moscow stock exchange was 65.55 rubles.

Thus, for a day he added more than 2 rubles. A similar situation with respect to the euro - for the European monetary unit on the MB offered 75.5 rubles. The main reason for the ruble collapse is the nervous reaction of investors to US sanctions against the Russian Federation. On the eve of the details of the new bill submitted to the Congress. The document addresses various areas, from restrictions on the Russian Federation's influence on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in connection with the poisoning of the Fiddles before the freezing of accounts of the largest Russian banks such as Sberbank and VTB, and the ban on the possession of Russian federal loan securities. If the sanctions package is adopted, the ruble may drop another 15 percent, believes Forex Club analyst Ivan Marchena. But while there are no reasons for sharp turns, so the fall will soon stop temporarily. "In the first half of September, before taking any decision on sanctions, the ruble will feel fairly calm. From falling it protects relatively high - above $ 70 - the price of oil. Most likely, by mid-September the ruble will return to the range of 61-65 rubles against the dollar, "- said the analyst of" Rossiyskaya Gazeta ".

However, then we must expect another strengthening of the American currency, believes economist Sergei Hestanov. He is convinced that the anti-Russian rhetoric on the eve of the autumn elections to the US Congress will only grow stronger. Therefore, legislators will accept both the proposed package of sanctions and other restrictive measures. Accordingly, the ruble exchange rate will continue to be fevered, the analyst said on the air of the National Security Council. It is not excluded that this fall the dollar will overcome the level of 73 rubles.