ruble|rubles in English

noun

['ruːbl]

unit of currency in Russia and states of the former Soviet Union (also rouble)

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1. The first post-Soviet Belarusian ruble was assigned the ISO code BYB and replaced the Soviet currency at the rate of 1 Belarusian ruble = 10 Soviet rubles.

2. The cost for the Championships was near 3.5 billion rubles.

3. All prices are given in Rubles and include our full luggage assistance.

4. The amount of precious metal in a ruble varied over time.

5. In 1917, the Provisional Government issued treasury notes for 20 and 40 rubles.

6. In 1947, State Treasury notes were introduced for denominations of 1-, 3- and 5 rubles, along with State Bank notes for denominations of 10-, 25-, 50 and 100 rubles.

7. While ruble coins were silver, there were higher denominations minted of gold and platinum.

8. In 1828, platinum coins were introduced with 1 ruble equal to 772⁄3 dolya (3.451 grams).

9. At the time of its cancellation, 20 billion rubles had been spent on the Buran programme.

10. In a 1704 currency reform, Peter the Great standardized the ruble to 28 grams of silver.

11. Special rubles used in accounting were not exchangeable to cash, and were effectively different currency units.

12. On Rupee-Ruble trade, you would recall that this was the norm of trade till the 80s when we based our trade on Rupee-Ruble arrangements, based on annual protocols of goods which were canalized through state agencies.

13. 1998 – Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.

14. The work had been commissioned by the Moscow Free Theatre for the handsome fee of 10,000 rubles.

15. The economy of Abkhazia is heavily integrated with Russia and uses the Russian ruble as its currency.

16. The subsidies to money-losing farms and industries were cut, price controls abolished, and the ruble moved towards convertibility.

17. Out of 4.9 trillion rubles ($192.16 billion) allocated for military rearmament, 25 percent will go into building new ships.

18. Short term treasury certificate were also issued to supplement banknote issue in 1 million, 5 million, 10 million rubles.

19. In addition, the exchange rate between ruble and USD is not adequately giving a real comparison to what the costs for Russia really are.

20. The provisional government also had 25 and 1,000 rubles state credit notes printed in the United States but most were not issued.

21. On the exchange of the Gosbank (State Bank) of the USSR, 100 Afghanis were equal to 2 rubles, 1 kopek (April 1970).

22. Kirienko's cabinet defaulted the GKO-OFZ government bond coupons which led to devaluation of the Russian ruble and 1998 Russian financial crisis.

23. But later in the conversation, he unwittingly said, ‘In 1959 alone, Irkutsk Oblast was allotted a five-million-ruble budget to deal with the Witnesses.’

24. According to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union spent 18 billion rubles (the equivalent of US$18 billion at that time) on containment and decontamination, virtually bankrupting itself.

25. The Russian government's official 2014 military budget is about 2.49 trillion rubles (approximately US$69.3 billion), the third largest in the world behind the US and China.