Western sanctions have frozen about $300 billion of Russia's $640 billion in gold and foreign exchange reserves.
According to Arabiya Net, the Russian Finance Minister, Anton Siluanov, said in an interview with state television that the West is putting pressure on China to limit its trade with Russia, and in order to impede Moscow's access to part of the state's reserves held in Chinese yuan.
But I believe that our partnership with China will continue to allow us to maintain, and not only maintain, but also increase the cooperation that we have had in an environment where Western markets are closed .
Siluanov also said that Russia will fulfill its government debt obligations and will pay debt holders in rubles until the state's reserves are unfrozen, the RIA news agency reported.
