The IMF has indefinitely postponed its first official visit to Russia since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine following criticism from several of Kyiv’s European allies, according to Russian state media.
The IMF’s leadership scrapped plans to begin a review of the Russian economy this week ahead of a trip to Moscow later this month because the mission was “technically not ready”, Alexsei Mozhin, the IMF’s executive director for Russia, told Tass news wire on Wednesday.
Mozhin said the last-minute decision was taken on Monday, the day preliminary talks were supposed to start. He suggested the U-turn had been prompted by objections from European countries to the IMF’s renewal of its ties with Russia.
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