The Central Bank suspended the issuance of an updated 1,000 ruble banknote

Earlier this week, the Central Bank introduced updated 1,000 and 5,000 ruble banknotes. Reference points of the federal districts were used in the design.

The Bank of Russia did not specify the reasons why it decided to finalize the design. The Central Bank statement indicates that the bill did not enter general circulation.

There are no plans to suspend the issuance of the five thousandth bill. The Nikolskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is depicted on the obverse of the thousand ruble bill. On the back were the Museum of the State History of the Tatar People and the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, the Syuyumbike Tower in the Kazan Kremlin, as well as the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography in Ufa.

Following the news about the updated banknote design, the Russian Orthodox Church was outraged by the absence of a cross on the dome of a building near the Kazan Kremlin.

Initially, the chairman of the synodal department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations between Church, society and media, Vladimir Legoyda, wrote on his Telegram channel that the choice of symbols for banknote images should be approached more Be careful, “so as not to create tension where there might well be none.”

One of the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, Pavel Ostrovsky, noted that the banknote depicts a minaret with a crescent and “the dome of an Orthodox church without a cross.”

And Legoyda’s deputy, Vakhtang Kipshidze, said the new design does not show Kazan as an “interfaith city.”