The Russian stock market today has fallen by almost 5% and this happens even after Friday's fall, when sanctions against Russian oligarchs.

This is written by the economist, managing the private investment fund in the US stock market Vladimir Kompaniets on his page in the social network Facebook.

"The reasons for today's fall is Deripaska's statement about a possible technical default after the imposed sanctions and Trump's statement after the chemical attack in Syria," the expert recalled..

The economist also joked that "Deripaska will remember Rybka for life, but she will not be released from the Thai prison".

Recall Nastya Rybka became known after the investigation of oppositionist Aleksey Navalny, thanks to her book, photo and video, Navalny exposed the scheme of relations between businessman Oleg Deripaska and one of the deputies of former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Sergei Prikhodko.

As previously reported, shares of UC Rusal, owned by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, collapsed by more than 49% after the company warned investors of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the sanctions imposed by the US Treasury on Friday could lead to a technical default.

Euro on the Moscow stock exchange is trading above the mark of 73 rubles - for the first time since September 2016. As of 13:03 Moscow time, for the euro they gave 73.20 rubles, for 1.82 rubles more than at the close of previous trades. This is reported by Medusa.

Earlier in the course of trading, the euro broke the mark of 72 euros - for the first time since August 2017.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow stock exchange is also rising. The American currency at 13:03 Moscow time was worth 59.67, rising from the beginning of trading by almost 1.5 rubles.