Russia in 2014 sold a third of US government bonds

Over the course of 2014, Russia reduced its investment in US government bonds on 52,6 a billion dollars.

According to data released by the US Treasury Department, in December 2013, Russia owned US securities for a total of 138,6 billion dollars. In December, 2014, the RF investments in US government bonds fell to 86 billion dollars.

Most actively, the Russian Federation sold US government bonds in March and December. In March, 2014 of the Russian Federation reduced investments in US securities by 25,8 billion dollars, in December - by 22,1 billion dollars.

The largest buyer of US government bonds remains China, owning, as of December 2014, US securities totaling 1,24 trillion dollars (1,27 trillion dollars in December 2013) and Japan - 1,23 trillion dollars in December 2014 (1,18 trillion in December 2013) of the year).