Russia has already suspended the transfer of coupon payments on local-law sovereign debt to foreign investors, and the likelihood that the government and companies are unable or unwilling to make external debt repayments (besides those already affected) has risen significantly. While attention is focused on the sovereign, one key point is that by far the largest external debts in Russia belong to the corporate sector.
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