Moscow, March 24 (RIA Novosti) - The volume of Russian gold and currency reserves made up $138.6 billion as of March 18, 2005, against $136.4 billion as of March 11, 2005. This was revealed in Thursday's press release of the Department of External and Public Relations at the Bank of Russia.
Accordingly, the volume of Russia's gold and currency reserves grew by $2.2 billion over a week.