This represents about half the total Soviet debt to this country, estimated at $1.5 billion.
A10 A decision is expected soon on rescheduling the Soviet debt.
Somebody has to be responsible for dividing the Soviet debt among the former republics.
By conventional yardsticks, the Soviet foreign debt is quite modest.
Large grain imports pushed the Soviet debt quite high in 1981.
By late 1985, however, a decrease in oil revenues nearly returned the Soviet debt to its 1981 level.
Russia and Ukraine between them owed $52 billion, or 77 percent of the total Soviet debt.
Russia has paid off almost all of its Soviet debt, and life is improving.
The Soviet debt to Hungary was $1.5 billion last year.
The Soviet foreign debt of $60 billion to $80 billion is to be shared among the successor states.