The ruble no longer reacts to the oil price, the fall of which led to a drastic devaluation of Russia's currency in late 2014, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced on Saturday.
"Despite oil prices falling in the past few days, the exchange rate is practically not reacting. What does this mean? That the rate has found its new place in the conditions of the new oil price, the new balance of payments," the minister said in an interview on Russian television.
"Even if oil prices are somewhat different from those we see today, the ruble exchange rate will not react the same way it did at the end of last year or the beginning of this year," Siluanov said.
Siluanov also added that the ruble's value compared to the dollar and euro grew by over 13 percent since the beginning of the year.
