any country needing to seel gold as russia are doing , and rumour is the stocks are low now , is not doing well .
Needing to sell gold is worse than debt because it indicates it's hard for therm to source enough debt now .
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since Western sanctions over Ukraine cut Russia's more traditional export routes, Russian customs records show.
The records, which contain details of nearly a thousand gold shipments in the year since the Ukraine war started, show the Gulf state imported 75.7 tonnes of Russian gold worth $4.3 billion - up from just 1.3 tonnes during 2021.
China and Turkey were the next biggest destinations, importing about 20 tonnes each between Feb. 24, 2022 and March 3, 2023. With the UAE, the three countries accounted for 99.8% of the Russian gold exports in the customs data for this period.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/russia-with-gold-uae-cashes-sanctions-bite-2023-05-25/
