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The ruble hits early war lows, extending a slide that began after Prigozhin’s mutiny.
The Russian ruble slid to lows unseen since the weeks after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, amid fallout from the mercenary boss Yevgeny V. Prigozhin’s aborted insurrection and declining Russian oil and gas revenues. The currency fell as low ...
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Russia Is Starting to Feel Squeezed by Sanctions
Vladimir Milov, a Russian opposition politician who favors strong sanctions against Russia to stop the war in Ukraine, asked me this week to imagine I’m in the Amazon rainforest when a giant anaconda coils itself around me. What I should do, he said ...
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