{"id":1390220,"date":"2026-05-05T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russians-withdraw-cash-en-masse-due-to-internet-outages-media\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:41:10","slug":"russians-withdraw-cash-en-masse-due-to-internet-outages-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russians-withdraw-cash-en-masse-due-to-internet-outages-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians withdraw cash en masse due to internet outages \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Russia, people have begun to massively withdraw money from banks and transfer it to cash due to frequent internet outages that prevent them from using banking services normally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is reported by<\/a> Bloomberg, citing data from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

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In April alone, Russians withdrew about 600 billion rubles in cash from banks. If you don’t take into account the traditional December rush, this is the largest outflow of funds since September 2022 – that’s when mobilization was announced in the country.<\/p>\n

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Over the past three months, the amount of cash in circulation has increased by 1.1 trillion rubles. This is more than in the entire last year.<\/p>\n

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Since May 2025, when large-scale Internet problems began in the Russian Federation, the banking system has already lost about 2.5 trillion rubles due to people simply withdrawing money “in cash.”<\/p>\n

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Experts explain it simply: people are afraid that at some point they may be left without access to their own money due to failures in digital services.<\/p>\n

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The situation was also influenced by low deposit rates, stricter bank control over operations, and the desire of some businesses to go underground.<\/p>\n

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All this only increases distrust in the Russian financial system.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, it was reported that the leader of the Russian communists, Gennady Zyuganov,<\/span><\/span> stated the risk of a repeat of the 1917 revolution in Russia against the backdrop of economic problems and growing discontent.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a reminder, Ukrainian special services have obtained recordings of telephone conversations of the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina<\/a> , who in private gave extremely pessimistic forecasts regarding the stability of the Russian financial system in the coming months. These data differ significantly from the official Kremlin propaganda.<\/p>\n

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