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The rouble area did not long outlive the Soviet Union; the monetary union of the Czech Republic and Slovakia lasted only a matter of weeks.

Victoria Beckham drew stares when she tottered out of an airport in Rome in a pair of mile-high Christian Louboutin heeled booties.

A year and a half ago my godmother, a wealthy old lady, died in Moscow, and to my surprise left me three thousand in her will.

Traders said Monday's intervention was the largest since the financial crisis led Russia to let the ruble drop sharply in 2009.

"Foreign banks stopped immediately, but Russian banks used affiliated parties to trade against the rouble, " he said.

Manya knows it would cost several hundred rubles to attend the university , besides paying for her room and board .

The other is the credit crunch which means an end to cheap loans for an economy that had become used to a flood of petroroubles.

Growth has stopped, the rouble has lost more than a third of its value since August and inflation is running at around 13% a year.

Mr. Zhang said the two countries are working on ways to eventually settle bilateral trade in Chinese yuan and Russian rubles.