Tag Archive: Russia

• Apr-10-2025

  Russia – Flag to be added to banknotes design. News on future banknote releases.

  Vassily Prokofiev, Director of the Bank Rossiya’s Cash Management Department, declared on 7 April that the addition of the Russian...

• Feb-7-2025

  Russian Federation – New banknotes update.

  The Central Bank of Russia has informed today 7 February 2025 that its new banknotes of 50 rubles (RUB50.3,) and 500...

• Dec-9-2024

  Russia – Discussion of symbols for new banknote of 1,000 rubles.

  The Advisory Board on Banknotes of the Bank of Russia called for an open meeting to discuss symbols for the...

• Oct-18-2023

  RUSSIAN FEDERATION – Central Bank suspends release of new 1,000 rubles note because of religious controversy..

  After the Russian Orthodox Church objected that the building that now is the Museum of the History of Statehood of...

• Oct-17-2023

  RUSSIAN FEDERATION – Goznak describes new Russian banknotes as almost impossible to counterfeit.

        “Compared with the previous generation of banknotes, the updated versions have significantly redesigned the security complex, which now...

• Oct-17-2023

  RUSSIAN FEDERATION – Religious controversy on new banknote.

  The Russian Orthodox Church has objected to the fact that the building that now is the Museum of the History...

• Oct-16-2023

  RUSSIAN FEDERATION – New banknotes.

        Bank Rossiya presented today 16 October 2023 its new banknotes of 1,000 rubles (RUB1,000.4) and 5,000 rubles (RUB5,000.3)....

• Mar-14-2023

  RUSSIA – Banknotes of 5 rubles banknotes back in the market.

  Banknotes of 5 rubles of the type 1997 are being reissued, 25 years after they were replaced by coins. It...

• Mar-7-2023

  Argentina – Banks affected by the abundance of small denomination banknotes.

  The refusal of the government to issue large denomination notes has created a glut of small ones, to the point...

• Mar-3-2023

  RUSSIA – New banknotes of 1,000 and 5,000 rubles to be issued in mid-2023.

  Sergei Belov, Deputy Chairman of Bank Rossiya, said that the new banknotes of 1,000 rubles (RUB1,000.4) and 5,000 rubles (RUB5,000.3)...

• Jan-24-2023

  Russia – Production of 5 rubles notes has been resumed. (Corrected).

  For the first time since 2001 banknotes of 5 rubles are being produced again. These notes (RUB5.2b) dated 1997 are...

• Oct-4-2022

  Russia – Possible motifs revealed for new 500 rubles banknote

  Bank Rossiya published a list of possible motifs for the new banknote of 500 rubles (RB500.4), which will be devoted...

• Sep-10-2022

  Russia – Bank Rossiya is preparing designs for 500 rubles banknote to be issued in 2024.

  Bank Rossiya announced that the designs of the new 500 rubles banknote (RUB500.4) to be issued in 2024 is being...

• Jul-25-2022

  Russia – Five and ten ruble banknotes may continue to be issued.

  Sergei Belov, Deputy Governor of Bank Rossiya, declared in an interview with Izvestia that the banknotes of 5 rubles (RUB5.2)...

• Jul-11-2022

  Russia – Banks switch to Chinese ATMs.

  Russian banks are switching to Chinese made ATMs. American and European cash handling equipment makers have stopped service and supply...

• Jul-8-2022

  Russia: New 100 rubles banknote appears in the Numismatic Market.

  A few new banknotes of 100 rubles (RUB100.6) have appeared in the Numismatic market. The come from those provided by...

• Jul-5-2022

  Russia – Antimicrobial properties in new banknote of 100 rubles.

  Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, said today in an interview with RIA Novosti, that the new banknotes of 100...

• Jul-5-2022

  Russia – Designs for new banknotes of 1,000 and 5,000 rubles selected.

  Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, declared today that the motifs for the new banknotes of 1,000 rubles (RUB1,000.4) and...

• Jul-1-2022

  Russia – New 100 rubles banknote presented today.

   Bank Rossiya presented today its new banknote of 100 rubles (RUB100.6). It is part of the new family of notes...

• Jun-30-2022

  Russia – Cryptic reference to the year of issue in new banknote. “Spying” rumors.

  Bank Rossiya confirmed that the time, 20.22 in the 24h notation, shown on the clock in the Spasskaya Tower on its new...

• Jun-28-2022

  Russia – Bank Rossiya will present a new 100 rubles note.

  Bank Rossiya will present its new modernized 100 rubles banknote (RUB100.6) at a press conference to take place on 30...

• Apr-29-2022

  Ukraine – Russian currency to circulate in Kherson.

  The Russian occupation forces in Kherson have decided to transition from the Ukrainian hryvnia to the Russian ruble as of...

• Apr-2-2022

  Russia – Error found on 2,000 rubles note.

     You saw it first here… A geographical error has been found on some recent 2,000 rubles banknotes (RUB2,000.1). The...

• Mar-18-2022

  Myanmar – Is Russia involved in the printing of Burmese banknotes?

  Giesecke+Devrient has suspended in early 2021 the printing of Burmese banknotes in response of growing violence following the military coup...

• Mar-16-2022

  Russia – Currency import/export and exchange restrictions.

  The export of amounts of or over USD10,000 or its equivalent is forbidden, even if it can be shown that...

• Mar-10-2022

  Russia – New 100 rubles banknote to be issued soon. (CORRECTED).

  According to an article in ABNews published in January the release to circulation of the new polymer 100 rubles (RUB100.6)...

• Mar-2-2022

  Russia – Leaving country with money limited to USD10,000.

  Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, signed today a decree which does not allow people to leave the country with more than...

• Oct-11-2021

  Russia – Argentina’s Navy Training Frigate “Libertad” on Russian banknotes.

  Igor Krylkov revealed in an interview with MKRU that when he was commissioned to design the 1995 banknote of 500,000...

• Apr-13-2021

  Russia – Izvestia’s New Banknote project.

     You saw it first here… Izvestia has launched the “New Banknotes Project”. Russians are asked to participate in the...

• Nov-12-2020

  Russia – Protective coat considered for small denomination banknotes.

    Goznak is preparing to varnish all 100 ruble banknotes and is technically ready to cover with varnishing the entire...

• May-30-2020

  Libya – Banknotes seized in Malta.

  The United States Department of State issued yesterday 29 May 2020 a press statement commending the Government of Malta for...

• Nov-2-2019

  Libya – Shipment of Libyan notes seized in Malta.

  Malta has seized in September a massive shipment of an unofficial Libyan currency believed to have been destined for military...

• Jun-29-2019

  Russia – Banknotes to be varnished.

  Bank Rossiya, the central Bank of Russia, has decided to apply a coat of varnish to the notes of 100...

• Sep-6-2018

  Russia – New banknotes planned.

  Further to the news published on September 4, new reports indicate that the first denomination of the new family of...

• Sep-4-2018

  Russian Federation – New banknotes

  Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, made declarations from which we can infer that Bank Rossiya is in the process...