Russia's foreign trade surplus in January-February decreased by 2.8 times

This is reported by the Central Bank.

It is noted that this figure for the first two months of this year amounted to $15.3 billion.

The credit institution explained the incident by a reduction in the physical volume of deliveries and a decrease in world prices for the main groups of Russian export goods.

In addition, the Central Bank reported that Russia's international reserves as of March 3 amounted to $578.4 billion.