MOSCOW, June 10 – RIA Novosti. Novgorod region in February 2015 were not able to make the payment on the loan VTB, becoming the first Russian region since 2008, defaulted on the definition of Standard & amp; Poors, wrote in a Wednesday newspaper RBC.
The maturity of the loan was set at 25 February 2015. To repay the loan, the regional government has announced auction to attract a new loan at an interest rate 23.63%. But hold the auction failed, the newspaper notes.
“Commercial banks, including OAO” VTB Bank “has not filed an application for participation in the auction, considering this interest rate is sufficient low “- leads edition of comment from the regional Department of Finance.
As a result, the region was able to agree on raising a new loan to refinance old with himself VTB. Obligation to repay within a month. The amount of the loan was “about 2 billion rubles,” the source told the newspaper in the department.
In the reporting VTB published on the website of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, stated that on March 1, 2015 the bank had recorded overdue debt from the subject of the Russian Federation in the amount of 1 68 billion rubles, says RBC.At the bank told the newspaper that the Novgorod region has no overdue obligations to the VTB. The Department of intergovernmental relations Russian Ministry of Finance information about delinquency commercial debt in the established order of the state authorities of the Novgorod region has been received, RBC added.
According to the Ministry of Finance as of May 1, the Russian regions since the beginning of the year attracted bank loans to 200 billion rubles to pay off – by 287 billion rubles (in January-April 2014 – 201 and 263 billion rubles, respectively).
Overdue accounts payable as of May 1 amounted to 23 billion rubles, an increase of 24% year to date. The public debt of regions of May 1 totaled 2.1 trillion rubles and grew YTD 0,5%.
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