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Currency Crises in Post-Soviet Russia

  • September 22, 2017
  • Juliet Johnson
(Russian Review) (Co-authored by David Woodruff) Abstract: Currency crises have been a recurrent feature of Russia's post-Soviet experience. This article examines three episodes of sudden and sharp ruble depreciation in 1998,…

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