The Central Bank of Russia confirmed that the new one hundred-ruble bill, issued in circulation in 2022, will not be supplemented with images of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), annexed to Russia in 2022.
The Info24 news publication drew attention to the absence of the outlines of the above-mentioned regions on the map of Russia depicted in the upper right corner of the new banknote.
Representatives of the Bank of Russia, responding to Info24's inquiry, stressed that "at the moment there are no plans to modernize the 100-ruble bill" and adding new regions to the banknote is not currently under consideration. They noted that the absence of these territories on the banknote is due to the fact that its design was developed back in 2021, before the territorial changes.
One hundred rubles appeared in circulation from June 30, 2022 and has a similar design to the banknotes with denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles, issued in 2017. This banknote is dedicated to Moscow and the Central Federal District, with the image of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin on the obverse side and the Rzhev Memorial to the Soviet Soldier on the reverse side. Its color scheme is olive-orange.
The DNR, LNR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions joined Russia following referendums held on September 30, 2022. Despite this, the West and Ukraine have not recognized these territorial changes, calling them annexation, and consider the new regions "occupied territories".