Russian gold/fx reserves rise to $522.4 bln

Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves rose to $522.4 billion in the week to March 22
from $520 billion a week earlier, central bank data showed on Thursday.
The central bank provided the following figures (in billion dollars):
Latest week 522.4

Previous week 520.0

End-2012 537.6

NOTE – The reserves include monetary gold, special drawing
rights, reserve position at the IMF and foreign exchange.