PECULIARITIES OF FORMATION THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL PAYMENT SYSTEM IN THE CONDITIONS OF GEOPOLITICAL INSTABILITY
The events of 2014, when Western payment systems refused to serve a number of Russian banks that were under US Treasury sanctions, made us think about the need to create a national payment system. The article analyzes problems of creation and peculiarities of the development national «MIR» payment system in the conditions of geopolitical instability, its strengths and weaknesses are revealed, its influence on the position of the Russian Federation in the world is noted in the changing political and economic situation.