Russian media published a list of countries that owed Russia to two Arab countries, the report showed that the countries most indebted to Russia are Belarus, Ukraine and Venezuela.
The Russian newspaper RBC prepared a report based on several sources about the debtors of Russia, according to which 17 countries in the world owes Moscow for 26.7 billion dollars.
Belarus topped the list with $ 7.6 billion in debt to Russia, followed by Ukraine with 3.7 billion and Venezuela with 3.5 billion.
The list included two Arab countries, Yemen and Iraq, and did not include foreign loans granted by Russia to build power stations in the world.
It is noteworthy in the report the absence of Arab countries such as Syria and Algeria, where Russia had announced at the end of last year to write off debts to a group of countries, including three Arab countries are Iraq, Algeria and Syria.
According to a report published in the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” last December, Moscow has written off debts to Iraq worth 21.5 billion dollars, Syria 9.8 billion, and Algeria $ 4.7 billion, in exchange for deals in several areas such as construction, oil and gas.
The following are information on the countries with which Russia has written off its debts:
