Russian Central Bank includes Egyptian pound in currency exchange rates list

The Russian Central Bank included the Egyptian pound in the official exchange rates against the rouble.

The Russian news agency “Sputnik” quoted the statement of the Russian Central Bank on Wednesday, that the list of foreign currencies whose price is officially set against the rouble now includes 9 currencies, including the Egyptian pound, the Emirati dirham, the Thai baht and the Indonesian rupiah, in addition to others including: the Vietnamese dong, the Serbian dinar, the New Zealand dollar, the Georgian lari, and the Qatari riyal.

The addition of the new currencies brought the total number of currencies listed by the Russian Central Bank at official daily rates to 43.