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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.
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