Russia sells both property and financial assets. According to T.Yakheeva, MP and economist, Russia sells the debts of other countries to the USSR at the price lower than the nominal one. For instance, according to her, the 90 mln. USD debt of Madagascar was sold for 45 mln. After collapse of the USSR, some countries already paid their debt to Russia but Ukraine received nothing.
Nobody knows about the amount of such assets today.
According to Mr Yukhnovsky, the USSR made most debts during the rule of Gorbachov. The biggest credits were given to the USSR in the second half of 1991 after the Ukrainian government adopted the Act on Independence on August 24, 1991. Ukraine received just 15 million USD of the credit amount. From that time, it was Russia that paid the USSR debt with the aid of Ukraine. Despite said debt payment postponements granted by the Paris club, at the end of 1994 Russia again found itself in a rather difficult position.