The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it has postponed planned economic consultations with Russia that were due to start this week to gather more data and analysis to ensure "a rigorous consultation".

The IMF ’s leadership scrapped plans to begin a review of the Russian economy this week ahead of a trip to Moscow later this month because the mission was “technically not ready”, Alexsei Mozhin, the IMF’s executive director for Russia, told Tass news wire on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has postponed its planned consultation mission with Russia indefinitely because of technical issues, TASS agency cited Alexei Mozhin, Russia's director at the IMF, as saying on Wednesday.

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) planned visit to Russia has been "postponed indefinitely," Russian state-controlled news agency TASS reported on Sept. 17.

Russian state media reported on Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a planned visit to Russia. This was to be the first visit of an IMF delegation to Moscow since the attack on Ukraine in February 2022.

The work of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, which was scheduled to participate in consultations with Russia, has been postponed indefinitely. Source: Alexey Mozhin, Executive Director of the IMF from Russia;