The Br 200 000 bank note of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has become the winner in the nomination "The best design showing the national character" at the Watermark Banknotes Awards.
Gold reserves of the country (counted by IMF methodology) decreased by $ 70.4 million. The reduction occurred despite the fact that our country received the next tranche of $ 440 million from Anti-Crisis Fund of EurAsEC on January, 31.
According to the preliminary data of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, gold reserves of the country (by IMF methodology) decreased by $ 112.6 million - up to $ 8.095 billion in December.
Belarus should pay $ 650.9 million till the end of December 2012 on foreign liabilities. This follows from the data published by the National Bank about international reserves and liquidity on December 1, 2012.
According to the statistical report of the National Bank of Belarus in January-October Belarus transferred to the budget of the Russian Federation duties on oil products obtained from Russian oil to the sum of $3 bil and 190.9 mil.