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Apple forced to stop online sales in Russia as currency falls apart

article published on 16 December, 2014

Apple has stopped online sales of its products in Russia today citing the "extreme" depreciation of the Russian national currency, the ruble. Russia's currency has been decimated in the past few months, and fell as much as 19 percent today against the US Dollar, falling to as low as 80 ruble per USD, before settling at 67. "Our online store in Russia is currently unavailable while ... [ read the full article ]

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bhetrick
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_ 		17. December 2014 @ 10:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I was reading how Saudi Arabia was dumping oil prices purposely to have a negative effect on Russia, Iran, and Iraq (because their economies are largely based on sale of their own oil).

Looks like it's working.
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ivymike
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_ 		17. December 2014 @ 12:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Meet the new currency: "rubbles"
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jimmurray
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_ 		18. December 2014 @ 12:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
at one point recently Putin was the darling of the media. He was touted as the most important man in the world. Lets see how many lists he makes now with the failure of the Russian economy under his leadership.
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