MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked the Finance Ministry with continuing dialogue with Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the issue of Kiev’s debt repayment to Moscow and with proposing $3 bln worth of additional loan be provided by the IMF to Ukraine.

"Long ago did we receive the right to demand this debt repayment before December, meaning that conditions occurred pursuant to our contract for virtual provision of this loan but we haven’t done this in order not to put our Ukrainian partners in a predicament and not to worsen economic turmoil," Putin said at a meeting with government members. "But why does the IMF not want to add those $3 bln to Ukraine so that it can pay off instead of changing its rules under specific country virtually destroying the IMF system itself," President said.