A man walks past a currency exchange office in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike of 3.5 percentage points on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, an ...

Cryptocurrency mining is one of the factors contributing for a stronger ruble lately, the head of the Bank of Russia has acknowledged. The statement confirms the claim of a Kremlin official, who ...

Russia's Central Bank has hiked interest rates at its first emergency meeting since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, after the ruble plummeted against the dollar. The bank's ...

LONDON (AP) — The Russian ruble on Monday reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports.

Since early December, the Russian ruble has continued to strengthen against global currencies: on Dec. 7, it reached a value ...

Falling oil prices and fears about capital flight helped push the Russian ruble to its weakest level against the U.S. dollar in a year on Monday, the latest milestone in what has been a dramatic ...

Vladimir Putin’s luck may be running out now that the ruble plunged below one cent, the lowest level against the U.S. dollar since the early days of his war in Ukraine. The Russian president, who ...

LONDON — The Russian ruble has dropped to its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports. On ...

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Russia's ruble has fallen a long way in recent months, and the country’s central bank has stepped in to try to halt the slide. Until now, the government stood aside as the declining ruble helped its ...