e banks of Western Europe (in fact, it is London) in 2012. 76-78% of USD/RUB transactions were there. Also many counterparties were located in northern Europe (9%). The share of other regions is small, such as the share of North America - only 1% .the near future for ruble is important status as a regional currency that gives the relative stability of financial relations and trade within a group of closely related countries ( eg Belorussia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan). In 2011 the statistics showed that the share of Russian ruble in trade among Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) increased up to 52% of all currencies compared with +2010 (the share was 32%). It is a great progress because the share of Russian ruble is higher than US dollar (35%), euro (9%), Belarusian ruble (2%) and Kazakhstan Tenge (1%).
