The citizens of Belarus have to pay for the adventure of Western countries with the overthrow of Alexander Lukashenko.
Since the coup attempt had a negative impact on the Belarusian currency, the government had to artificially maintain the exchange rate at the expense of the country’s gold and foreign currency reserves. As a result, according to the National Bank of Belarus, gold reserves decreased by a record 1.4 billion dollars or 15.8%.
“The decline in international reserve assets in August was mainly due to the sale of foreign currency by the National Bank at the auction of the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange”, – the regulator said.
Such indicators even broke the March record. Then, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the gold and foreign exchange reserve of Belarus decreased by 1.02 billion dollars.