1998 Russian financial crisis

A graph shows the USD to Russian ruble exchange rate in the second half of 1998. In the weeks following 17 August, one US dollar went from being worth 6.43 rubles to being worth over 21 rubles.

Short description: Mid-1998 economic crisis in Russia

The Russian financial crisis (also called the ruble crisis or the Russian flu) began in Russia on 17 August 1998. It resulted in the Russian government and the Russian Central Bank devaluing the ruble and defaulting on its debt. The crisis had severe impacts on the economies of many neighboring countries.

## Contents

* 1 Background and course of events
* 1.1 Reasons for the crisis
* 1.2 Precipitating factors
* 2 Crisis and effects
* 2.1 Inflation
* 2.2 Banking
* 2.3 Agriculture
* 2.4 Political fallout
* 3 Recovery
* 4 Positive effect
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading

## Background and course of events

Russian economy since fall of the Soviet Union (2008 international dollars) EUR/Ruble exchange rate (Rubles per Euro) Russian inflation rate 1993-2022

The Russian economy had set up a path for improvement after the Soviet Union had split into different countries. Russia was supposed to provide assistance to the former Soviet states and, as a result, imported heavily from them. In Russia, foreign loans financed domestic investments. When it was unable to pay back those foreign borrowings, the ruble devalued. In mid-1997, Russia had finally found a way out of inflation. The economic supervisors were happy about inflation coming to a standstill. Then the crisis hit, and supervisors had to implement a new policy. Both Russia and the countries that exported to it experienced fiscal deficits. The countries that exported to it used their resources for production but did not get paid for all their production. In essence, their national income could not cover their national expenses (for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan). Russia’s unemployment rate was not sharply impacted since it was only 13 percent. The employment policy in Kazakhstan was checked on November 9, 1998, to give freely chosen employment. The employment in Tajikistan has not improved much since the 1990s, so exactly how the crisis affected employment in 1998 remains a question. The GDP per capita was one of the lowest after 1996 for Tajikistan. Russia's vast amount of mineral and natural resources allowed it to export those, pay back its debt, and then increase foreign reserves to revalue its currency.[1][2]

### Reasons for the crisis

The crisis happened because Russia was not able to pay back its debt. Since Russia had to provide assistance to other countries it had parted from after the dissolution of the USSR, it did so by importing heavily from those countries. In 1995, the IMF tried to help Russia stabilize by making an emergency loan, but it was unsuccessful.

### Precipitating factors

Declining productivity, a high fixed exchange rate between the ruble and foreign currencies to avoid public turmoil, fatal financial imprudence, and a chronic fiscal deficit led to the crisis.[3] The economic cost of the first war in Chechnya took a significant toll on the Russian economy. In early 1995, it was estimated that the war was costing Russia close to $30 million per day. Following the cessation of hostilities in 1996, it was estimated that the war in Chechnya cost Russia $5.5 billion, causing budget deficits close to 10% of their GDP.[4][5]

In the first half of 1997, the Russian economy showed some signs of improvement. However, soon after this, the problems began to gradually intensify. Two external shocks, the Asian financial crisis that had begun in 1997 and the following declines in demand for (and thus price of) crude oil and nonferrous metals, severely impacted Russian foreign exchange reserves.[6] A political crisis came to a head in March when Russian president Boris Yeltsin suddenly dismissed Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and his entire cabinet on 23 March 1998.[7] Yeltsin named Energy Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, then 35 years old, as acting prime minister.

On 29 May 1998, Yeltsin appointed Boris Fyodorov as Head of the State Tax Service.

In an effort to prop up the currency and stem the capital flight, in June, Kiriyenko hiked GKO interest rates to 150%.

A $22.6 billion International Monetary Fund and World Bank financial package was approved on 13 July 1998 to support reforms and stabilize the Russian market by swapping out an enormous volume of the quickly maturing GKO short-term bills into long-term Eurobonds. The Russian government decided to keep the exchange rate of the ruble within a narrow band, although many economists, including Andrei Illarionov, urged the government to abandon its support of the ruble.

USD / Russian Ruble exchange rate

On 12 May 1998, coal miners went on strike over unpaid wages, blocking the Trans-Siberian Railway. By 1 August 1998, there was approximately $12.5 billion in debt owed to Russian workers. On 14 August, the exchange rate of the Russian ruble to the US dollar was still 6.29. In June 1998, despite the bailout, monthly interest payments on Russia's debt rose to a figure 40 percent higher than its monthly tax collections.

Additionally, on 15 July 1998, the State Duma, which was at the time dominated by left-wing parties, refused to adopt most of the government's anti-crisis plan, so the government was forced to rely on presidential decrees. On 29 July, Yeltsin interrupted his vacation in Valdai Hills region and flew to Moscow, prompting fears of a Cabinet reshuffle, but he only replaced Federal Security Service Chief Nikolay Kovalyov with Vladimir Putin.

At the time, Russia employed a "floating peg" policy toward the ruble, meaning that the Central Bank decided that at any given time the ruble-to-dollar (or RUB/USD) exchange rate would stay within a particular range. If the ruble threatened to devalue outside of that range (or "band"), the Central Bank would intervene by spending foreign reserves to buy rubles. For instance, during the year before the crisis, the Central Bank aimed to maintain a band of 5.3 to 7.1 RUB/USD, meaning that it would buy rubles if the market exchange rate threatened to exceed 7.1 rubles/dollar. Similarly, it would sell rubles if the market exchange rate threatened to drop below 5.3.

The inability of the Russian government to implement a coherent set of economic reforms led to a severe erosion in investor confidence and a chain reaction that can be likened to a run on the Central Bank. Investors fled the market by selling rubles and Russian assets (such as securities), which also put downward pressure on the ruble. This forced the Central Bank to spend its foreign reserves to defend Russia's currency, which in turn further eroded investor confidence and undermined the ruble. It is estimated that between 1 October 1997 and 17 August 1998, the Central Bank expended approximately $27 billion of its U.S. dollar reserves to maintain the floating peg.

It was later revealed that about $5 billion of the international loans provided by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were stolen upon the funds' arrival in Russia on the eve of the meltdown.[8][9] Russian representatives describes inquiry into the fate of the money as "anti-Russian".[10]

## Crisis and effects

On 17 August 1998, the Russian government devalued the ruble, defaulted on domestic debt, and declared a moratorium on repayment of foreign debt.[11] On that day the Russian government and the Central Bank of Russia issued a "Joint Statement" announcing, in essence, that:[12]

1. the ruble/dollar trading band would expand from 5.3–7.1 RUB/USD to 6.0–9.5 RUB/USD;
2. Russia's ruble-denominated debt would be restructured in a manner to be announced at a later date; and, to prevent mass Russian bank default,
3. a temporary 90-day moratorium would be imposed on the payment of some bank obligations, including certain debts and forward currency contracts.[13]

On 17 August, the government declared that certain state securities, such as GKOs and OFZs, would be transformed into new securities.

At the same time, in addition to widening the currency band, authorities also announced that they intended to allow the RUB/USD rate to move more freely within the wider band.

At the time, the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (or "MICEX") set a daily "official" exchange rate through a series of interactive auctions based on written bids submitted by buyers and sellers. When the buy and sell prices matched, this "fixed" or "settled" the official MICEX exchange rate, which would then be published by Reuters. The MICEX rate was (and is) commonly used by banks and currency dealers worldwide as the reference exchange rate for transactions involving the Russian ruble and foreign currencies.

From 17 to 25 August 1998, the ruble steadily depreciated on the MICEX, moving from 6.43 to 7.86 RUB/USD. On 26 August 1998, the Central Bank terminated dollar-ruble trading on the MICEX, and the MICEX did not fix a ruble-dollar rate that day.

On 2 September 1998, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation decided to abandon the "floating peg" policy and float the ruble freely. By 21 September, the exchange rate reached 21 rubles for one US dollar, meaning it lost two-thirds of its value of less than a month earlier.

On 28 September, Boris Fyodorov was discharged from the position of the Head of the State Tax Service.

The moratorium imposed by the Joint Statement expired on 15 November 1998, and the Russian government and Central Bank did not renew it.

Following Russia's default in August, Ukraine also defaulted one month later, in September 1998. Moldova also defaulted in 1998, but ended its default by the end of the year, whereas Russia and Ukraine remained in default until 2000.[14][15]

### Inflation

Russian inflation in 1998 reached 84 percent and welfare costs grew considerably. Many banks, including Inkombank, Oneximbank, and Tokobank, closed as a result of the crisis.

### Banking

Bankers Trust suffered major losses in the summer of 1998 due to the bank having a large position in Russian government bonds,[16] but avoided financial collapse by being acquired by Deutsche Bank for $10 billion in November 1998.[17] This made Deutsche Bank the fourth-largest money management firm in the world after UBS, Fidelity Investments, and the Japanese post office's life insurance fund.

### Agriculture

The main effect of the crisis on Russian agricultural policy has been a dramatic drop in federal subsidies to the sector, about 80 percent in real terms compared with 1997, though subsidies from regional budgets fell less.[18]

### Political fallout

The financial collapse resulted in a political crisis as Yeltsin, with his domestic support evaporating, had to contend with an emboldened opposition in the parliament. A week later, on 23 August 1998, Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and declared his intention of returning Chernomyrdin to office as the country slipped deeper into economic turmoil.[19] Powerful business interests, fearing another round of reforms that might cause leading enterprises to fail, welcomed Kiriyenko's fall, as did the Communists.

Yeltsin, who began to lose his hold on power as his health deteriorated, wanted Chernomyrdin back, but the legislature refused to give its approval. After the Duma rejected Chernomyrdin's candidacy twice, Yeltsin, his power clearly on the wane, backed down. Instead, he nominated Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who was approved by the State Duma by an overwhelming majority on 11 September 1998.

Primakov's appointment restored political stability because he was seen as a compromise candidate able to heal the rifts between Russia's quarreling interest groups. There was popular enthusiasm for Primakov as well. Primakov promised to make payment of wages and pensions his government's first priority and invited members of the leading parliamentary factions into his Cabinet.

Communists and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia staged a nationwide strike on 7 October 1998 and called on President Yeltsin to resign. On 9 October 1998, Russia, which was also suffering from a poor harvest, appealed for international humanitarian aid, including food.

## Recovery

Russia bounced back from the August 1998 financial crash with surprising speed. Much of the reason for the recovery is that world oil prices increased rapidly during 1999–2000 and Russia ran a large trade surplus in 1999 and 2000. Another reason is that domestic industries, such as food processing, had benefited from the devaluation, which caused a steep increase in the prices of imported goods.[20][21]

Also, since Russia's economy was operating to such a large extent on barter[22] and other non-monetary instruments of exchange, the financial collapse had far less of an impact on many producers than it would have had the economy been dependent on a banking system. Finally, the economy was helped by an infusion of cash. As enterprises were able to pay off debts in back wages and taxes, consumer demand for goods and services produced by Russian industry began to rise.

## Positive effect

The crisis was praised by James Cook, the senior vice president of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund, on the basis that it taught Russian bankers to diversify their assets.[23]

Economist Anders Åslund credits the 1998 financial crisis with providing the decisive push towards real market economy in Romania and most of the post-Soviet countries (which, until then, had only liberalized slowly and partially).[24] For instance, Romania's first major privatization along with the first privatization of a state-owned Romanian bank took place in the aftermath of the Russian crisis, at the end of 1998, November and December respectively.[25][26]

## See also

* GKO-OFZ, Russian government bonds
* Great Recession in Russia
* Long-Term Capital Management, hedge fund sunk in the wake of the Russian crisis
* Russian financial crisis (2014–2017)
* 2022 Russian financial crisis

Contemporaneous financial crises

* 1997 Asian financial crisis
* 1998–2002 Argentine great depression, which then led to the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis
* Lost Decade, Japan's economic crisis
* Samba effect

General

* Flight-to-liquidity
* Sovereign default
* Vulture fund

## References

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2. ↑ "Russia unemployment rate 1991 to 2022". https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/unemployment-rate.
3. ↑ "Global Waves of Debt: Causes and Consequences" (in en). https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/publication/waves-of-debt.
4. ↑ Hockstader, Lee. "CHECHNYA DRAINING RUSSIAN ECONOMY". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/01/09/chechnya-draining-russian-economy/675a46a4-f429-4497-b59d-a93323aff93d/.
5. ↑ Pain, Emil (2001). "From the First Chechen War Towards the Second". The Brown Journal of World Affairs 8 (1): 7–19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24590171. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
6. ↑ Russian Federation: International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity , IMF, 25 June 2012
7. ↑ "Online NewsHour: Russia Shake Up- March 23, 1998". Pbs.org. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june98/russia_3-23.html.
8. ↑ "Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty". Rferl.org. 27 June 2002. http://www.rferl.org/reports/corruptionwatch/2002/06/25-270602.asp. ""On 22 April, the head of the State Audit Chamber once again confessed he did not know the current whereabouts of almost $5 billion which Russia received as a loan back in 1998. According to [Chamber head Sergei Stepashin], the money actually 'dissolved' at the very moment it was sent to support a number of major banks, including SBS-Agro," "Novaya gazeta" wrote on 27 May. The paper went on to say: "There is only one explanation: the dollars really 'dissolved,' as Stepashin said. However, speaking more precisely, the loan from the IMF was simply stolen. "It is no exaggeration: The tremendous sum of money the state received could not have been stolen by any Mafia men, but only by top-ranking officials.""
9. ↑ Hirschler 1999.
10. ↑ AP Archive (2015-07-21). USA/RUSSIA: CONCERN OVER FATE OF IMF LOANS GOING TO RUSSIA. Retrieved 2025-11-26 - via YouTube.
11. ↑ Chiodo & Owyang 2002.
12. ↑ ""Joint Statement by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation On the Exchange Rate Policy", 17 August 1998.". http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/JOINT.htm.
13. ↑ "STATEMENT of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation 17 August 1998". http://www2.minfin.ru/off_inf/69.htm.
14. ↑ Greg Gliner, John Wiley & Sons, Jun 9, 2014, Global Macro Trading: Profiting in a New World Economy, p. 185
15. ↑ Martín Uribe, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Princeton University Press, Apr 4, 2017, Open Economy Macroeconomics, pp. 582-585
16. ↑ Liz Moyer (30 October 2007). "Super-Size That Severance". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/2007/10/30/merrill-severance-compensation-biz-wall-cx_lm_1031failure.html.
17. ↑ Edmund L. Andrews (1 December 1998). "Bank Giant: The Overview; Deutsche Gets Bankers Trust for $10 Billion". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/01/business/bank-giant-the-overview-deutsche-gets-bankers-trust-for-10-billion.html?pagewanted=all.
18. ↑ Web Archives: View Archived Page . Ers.usda.gov. Retrieved on 23 October 2013.
19. ↑ "Online NewsHour: Russia's Crisis – September 17, 1998". Pbs.org. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/september98/russia.html.
20. ↑ Stiglitz, Joseph (9 April 2003). "The ruin of Russia". The Guardian (London). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/09/russia.artsandhumanities.
21. ↑ "CIA – The World Factbook – Russia". Cia.gov. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/russia/.
22. ↑ Ould-Ahmed, Pepita (2003). "Barter Hysteresis in Post-Soviet Russia: An Institutional and Post Keynesian Perspective". Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 26 (1): 95–116. ISSN 0160-3477. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4538863. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
23. ↑ Chipman, Andrea (30 October 2000). "Small Businesses Redeem Reputation of the West's Russian Loan Programs". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB972857009597420870. ""The crisis was the best thing that could have happened to us," said James Cook, Delta Capital's senior vice president. "It was really a good demonstration to commercial banks of how well they could diversify their risks," with smaller borrowers."
24. ↑ Anders Åslund, Cambridge University Press, 2013, How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, p. 97
25. ↑ Ian Jeffries, Routledge, Feb 7, 2002, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition, p. 56
26. ↑ Sheilah Kast, Jim Rosapepe, Bancroft Press, 2009, Dracula is Dead: How Romanians Survived Communism, Ended It, and Emerged Since 1989 as the New Italy, p. 99

## Further reading

* Allen, Larry (2009). The Encyclopedia of Money (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. pp. 350–352. ISBN 978-1598842517.
* Boughton, James M. (2012). Tearing Down Walls: The International Monetary Fund, 1990–1999. Washington, DC: IMF. pp. 287–347. ISBN 978-1-616-35084-0. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/history/2012/index.htm. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
* Buchs, Theirry D. (1999). "Financial crisis in the Russian Federation: Are the Russians learning to tango?". Economics of Transition 7 (3): 687–715. doi:10.1111/1468-0351.00031. * Chiodo, Abbigail J.; Owyang, Michael T. (2002). "A Case Study of a Currency Crisis: The Russian Default of 1998". Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 84 (6): 7–18. http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/02/11/ChiodoOwyang.pdf. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
* Desai, Padma (2000). "Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998?". The American Economic Review 90 (2): 48–52. doi:10.1257/aer.90.2.48. * Estrin, Saul (1998). "The Russian Default". Business Strategy Review 9 (3): 1–6. doi:10.1111/1467-8616.00069. * Gaidar, Yegor (1999). "Lessons of the Russian Crisis for Transition Economies". Finance and Development 36 (2): 6–8. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1999/06/pdf/gaidar.pdf. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
* Gould-Davies, Nigel; Woods, Ngaire (1999). "Russia and the IMF". International Affairs 75 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.00057. * Henry, Brian; Nixon, James (1998). "The Crisis in Russia: Some Initial Observations". Economic Outlook 23 (1): 22–29. doi:10.1111/1468-0319.00148. * Hirschler, Richard, ed (1999). "Foreign Loans Diverted in Monster Money Laundering". Transition (World Bank) 10 (4): 11–13. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/11/05/000094946_99102305583760/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
* Kharas, Homi; Pinto, Brian; Ulatov, Sergei (2001). "An Analysis of Russia's 1998 Meltdown: Fundamentals and Market Signals". Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2001 (1): 1–50. doi:10.1353/eca.2001.0012. *Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin (2000). "Welfare Impacts of the 1998 Financial Crisis in Russia and the Response of the Public Safety Net". Economics of Transition 8 (2): 269–295. doi:10.1111/1468-0351.00045. * Medvedev, Alexei (2001). International investors, contagion and the Russian crisis. BOFIT Discussion Papers. 2001. Helsinki: Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition. ISBN 978-951-686-954-7. http://www.fbird.com/assets/dp0601__715200319212.pdf. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
* Perotti, Enrico (2002). "Lessons from the Russian Meltdown: The Economics of Soft Legal Constraints". International Finance 5 (3): 359–399. doi:10.1111/1468-2362.00101. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39763/3/wp379.pdf. Retrieved 1 September 2019. * Pinto, Brian; Gurvich, Evsey; Ulatov, Sergei (2005). "Lessons from the Russian Crisis of 1998 and Recovery". In Joshua Aizenman and Brian Pinto, eds., Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide. New York NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 406–438. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511510755.012. ISBN 978-0-521-85524-2.
* Pinto, Brian; Ulatov, Sergei (2010). "Russia 1998 Revisited: Lessons for Financial Globalization". Economic Premise (Washington, DC: World Bank) 37. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP37.pdf. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
* Reisman, Daniel (1999). "Russia's Tax Crisis: Explaining Falling Revenues in a Transitional Economy". Economics & Politics 11 (2): 145–169. doi:10.1111/1468-0343.00056. * Tompson, William (1999). "The Bank of Russia and the 1998 Rouble Crisis". In Vladimir Tikhomirov, ed., Anatomy of the 1998 Russian Crisis. Melbourne: Contemporary Europe Research Centre. pp. 108–144. ISBN 978-0-734-01728-4.
* Treisman, Daniel (2006). "Evaluating Exchange Rate Management". The State After Communism: Governance in the New Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 187–224. ISBN 978-0-742-53941-9. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/treisman/Papers/ruboct06.pdf.
* Chronology of the Russian Financial Crisis 1998 by Clifford Chance.
* Overview of Structural Reforms in Russia after 1998 Financial Crisis by S.A. Vasiliev, International Monetary Fund, 16 February 2000.
* 1999 IMF World Economic Outlook, Interim Assessment, Ch. II: The Crisis in Emerging Markets , International Monetary Fund, December 1999.
* Russia's Silent Middle Class , by Carol Clark, CNN, September 1998

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