The Kremlin's top brass are trying to pass the buck over the ruble's collapse. This rare public infighting shows just how precarious Russia's wartime economy is.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina outside Moscow, Russia October 27, 2017.
The Kremlin's top brass are trying to pass the buck over the ruble's collapse. This rare public infighting shows just how precarious Russia's wartime economy is.

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Moscow banned 2 major Swiss banks from selling shares in its subsidiaries after a Russian bank said it would lose money from their exit

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Moscow banned 2 major Swiss banks from disposing of shares in its subsidiaries after a Russian bank said it would lose money from the exit.

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Russia's ruble spikes as Putin and officials mull ways to prop up the currency after it dropped below a penny this week

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov (R) attend an expanded meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board at the National Defence Control Centre in Moscow, on December 21, 2022.

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Russia's top general Sergei Shoigu bragged that the Kremlin's war in Ukraine has 'debunked many myths' that NATO weapons and military standards are superior

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (C) smiles while visiting the Army 2023 Exhibition on August 14, 2023 in Kubinka, Russia.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

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Russia eyes more extreme measures to prop up the ruble after it crashes to less than a penny

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Russia's ruble advanced against the dollar and broke with a global trend Friday.

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Russia's central bank bids to prop up the plummeting ruble by hiking interest rates to 12% at an emergency meeting

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The Bank of Russia raised interest rates to 12% Tuesday, in a bid to prop up the plunging ruble.

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Russian pilots died in a Su-30 fighter crash during a training exercise over Kaliningrad, with reports saying they didn't have time to eject

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The Sukhoi Su-30SM jet fighter of Russian Navy performs its demonstration flight at MAKS-2015 airshow near Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, Russia
The Sukhoi Su-30SM jet fighter of Russian Navy performs its demonstration flight at MAKS-2015 airshow near Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, Russia

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Ukraine banks on vintage Soviet rocket launchers to support the counteroffensive against Putin's invasion, report says

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Ukrainian servicemen from 24th brigade operate a BM-21 Grad near the frontlines of Toretsk, Ukraine on March 18, 2023.
Ukrainian servicemen from 24th brigade operate a BM-21 Grad near the frontlines of Toretsk, Ukraine on March 18, 2023.

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Ukrainian morgues seeing 'more or less double' the fatalities since counter-offensive began

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Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin of one of the three Ukrainian soldiers killed during the battles with Russian troops.
While Ukraine does not disclose the number of casualties it has sustained, General Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated in February that Ukraine had lost more than 100,000 soldiers since the war began last year.

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Zelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes to help Ukrainian men dodge the draft: 'bribery during war is treason'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.

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