Lithuanian Finance Minister Gintare Skaiste welcomed the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) decision to postpone its planned mission to Russia indefinitely, BNS reports. Earlier, the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as Poland urged the IMF to reconsider its decision to resume consultations with Russia. Speaking in an interview with Ziniu Radijas, Skaiste noted that it would have seemed “schizophrenic” for the IMF to support Ukraine while at the same time advising Russia on how to manage its war economy. Alexey Mozhin, the IMF’s executive director for Russia, told Russian media that the fund had postponed the mission to Russia for “technical reasons.”
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