rouble

The Soviet rouble, and the Latvian rouble before the LVL currency established.

I mean back to Tsarist days, a rouble was worth a LOT of gold.

The US dollar and the Russian rouble are about as decoupled as you get -- not very.

The value of the rouble has collapsed over the past year, I think he means tech workers would only be too happy to leave.

Don't worry, before the end of year, rouble will probably be 66% down against dollar!

Where did he get tens of thousands of dollars (even if in the Rouble equivalent)?

Few of my Russian friends are even aware of the fall of the Rouble and the pending collapse of their own economy.

In both cases I had no rouble reaching a real person and the issue was resolved within hours.

Russia never relied on the strong rouble for its economy to function.

The official rate was ~1.3 dollars for 1 rouble (rouble was officially more valuable than dollar!) at the time, but the catch was you could only exchange a few hundred at a time in very special circumstances.

The Russian rouble was not free floating prior to the crisis.

We celebrate our defeats and our withdrawals – the Battle of Hastings, Dunkirk I'm having rouble reconciling the first sentence with the second.

They don't technically need to have all the "85 rouble party" crowd to do the voting before deciding anything.

"Russian rouble in free-fall despite shock 17% rate rise" I'm not sure how well that's working out for them.

> "the official currency of Russian Federation is rouble, Issue (introduction) of other currencies and currency surrogates is prohibited How is that different from any other country?

If Apple has to pay Warner Brothers a sum contractually specified in dollars for each copy of "Pump Up the Volume" that it sells, it could easily lose money if the rouble falls more quickly than they can adjust prices.

Rouble crashed in value - more than 10% lost in a single day.