The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send its first mission to Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the IMF’s Russian Executive Director Aleksei Mozhin claimed in a comment for Reuters on Sept. 3. The mission, which will be headed by Argentine economist Jacques Miniane, will allegedly begin in an online format and then include a visit to Moscow from an IMF delegation in October. No such announcement has been made on the IMF’s website or social media. The last IMF mission to Russia was in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. “We were excluded from this process …
