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BOFIT: Sanctions push CBR to adjust its ruble exchange rate policy
The Central Bank of Russia abandoned its nominal exchange rate target and allowed the ruble to float freely in November 2014. The ruble’s official exchange rate against major currencies used in foreign trade was thereafter based on trading on the Moscow …