{"id":18215,"date":"2022-03-15T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=18215"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:44:20","slug":"russias-finance-minister-has-admitted-the-country-cant-use-nearly-half-its-640-billion-foreign-currency-war-chest-because-of-western-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=18215","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s finance minister has admitted the country can&#8217;t use nearly half its $640 billion foreign currency war chest because of Western sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia wants to use its foreign currency reserves as a cushion against economic sanctions imposed by the US and its allies and to prop up its economy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-admits-it-cant-access-nearly-half-foreign-currency-reserves-2022-3\">Russia&#8217;s finance minister has admitted the country can&#8217;t use nearly half its $640 billion foreign currency war chest because of Western sanctions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia wants to use its foreign currency reserves as a cushion against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[316,18,402,1147],"class_list":["post-18215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-currency","tag-economics","tag-russia","tag-ww3","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}