Central bank gave about 650B roubles credit to Rosneft last Friday after markets had got closed. It seems like today Rosneft just exchanged the money into USD and Euro for quick profits. Just as planned.
upd and no, local prices are not the same. Prices for low-end food (and red and black caviar too), and clothes are in line with 7-8% of inflation. Some bacon of good quality and some other processed food got 50-100% up in price, that's the things I used to buy and though my income is in USD so in theory I can buy it as easy as before, it's still hard for me to adapt to the new price tags. Electronics are about 10-15% more expensive, but retailers still sell goods from old contracts, when they get new deliveries it will be even more expensive. Cars are still sold for more or less old prices, real estate too.
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