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For days, the ruble has been falling and salaries shrinking; shoppers have rushed to snap up TV sets and washing machines.

In a humiliating turn of events, the ruble has lost about half its value against the dollar so far this year.

But in Russia, the wooden ruble seems to be widely accepted.

His oft-neglected wife Zinaida outlived him by six years, but she “never saw a ruble” of the money generated by his success.

When money leaves, turning rubles into dollars, Euros, and everything else, that puts pressure on the ruble.

But, owing to the great depreciation of the ruble, the actual expenditures were much less.

It is stuffed full of bills,—nothing but hundred-ruble notes.

"Yes, you won by the half-ruble last evening, and so you like it," exclaimed the Greek.

On her neck was a necklace wholly composed of half-ruble pieces.

Repa took a ruble out of the box, and went to the secretary.