Kremlin aide sees rouble liquidity deficit as a key problem

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin's top economic aide, Andrei Belousov, said on Friday Russia's most acute problems are not over the rouble rate against the dollar but over a deficit of rouble liquidity.

Belousov said the government had a plan that was "more or less" ready for any economic scenario and that measures that had already been approved, including providing additional capital to banks, would soon reverse the fortunes of the rouble. The rouble has fallen about 45 percent against the dollar this year.

(Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya, Writing by Lidia Kelly, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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