{"id":83547,"date":"2023-08-24T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83547"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:45:16","slug":"survey-a-quarter-of-russians-would-store-up-to-%e2%82%bd20000-in-the-digital-rouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-a-quarter-of-russians-would-store-up-to-%e2%82%bd20000-in-the-digital-rouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: a quarter of Russians would store up to \u20bd20,000 in the digital rouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>58.3% of Russians are willing to store savings in the digital rouble, but the amounts they consider for CBDC investments vary. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1563644\/2023-08-24\/chetvert-rossiian-zaiavila-o-gotovnosti-khranit-v-tcifrovom-ruble-do-20-tysiach\">Izvestiya<\/a> citing research by the founders of the &#8216;Artificial Intelligence&#8217; prize, organized by the SPB Exchange and RTS.<\/p>\n<p>The survey included more than 2,000 respondents nationwide, aged 18 to 65.<\/p>\n<p>About 15% said they would convert no more than \u20bd5,000, 23.8% \u2014 from \u20bd5,000 to \u20bd20,000, 9% \u2014 from \u20bd20,000 to \u20bd50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2% of respondents named the range from \u20bd50,000 to \u20bd100,000, 3.4% \u2014 above \u20bd100,000, and only 2.4% \u2014 all of their savings.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of respondents would like to start using the digital rouble in everyday life. 22% say they are deterred by a lack of information about the technology, and 21% by concerns about security and system glitches.<\/p>\n<p>The law on Russia&#8217;s digital currency took effect <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-legally-recognises-foreign-cbdcs\">1 August<\/a>. Citizens will be able to use it widely <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/central-bank-outlines-timelines-for-broad-rollout-of-the-digital-ruble\">in 2025\u20132027<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the regulator set for banks <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-sets-out-safeguards-for-digital-ruble-transactions\">requirements<\/a> for information security of operations with digital roubles and established <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-sets-tariffs-for-digital-ruble-operations\">tariffs for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Association of Banks of Russia spoke of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/banks-flag-wary-attitude-toward-the-digital-ruble\">\u00aban extremely wary attitude\u00bb<\/a> among citizens toward the asset.<\/p>\n<p>From 15 August, Russian credit and financial institutions conduct <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vtb-qiwi-bank-and-alfa-bank-test-the-digital-ruble\">first operations<\/a> as part of CBDC testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>58.3% of Russians are willing to store savings in the digital rouble, but the amounts they consider for CBDC investments vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1165,167,27],"class_list":["post-83547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-digital-ruble","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83549,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83547\/revisions\/83549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}