So this confuses me even more. If it’s not freely traded, why isn’t it just pegged by Russia?
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As with many things, Putin has to put up a pretense of normalcy and stability to countries that aren’t imposing sanctions. Pegging to the USD or Euro would effectively be an admission that things are very much not normal with the ruble.
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Reuters and other outlets report this “trading” as just-another-day-on-Wall-Street which creates a certain blurry opaqueness to the reality.
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Prigozhin apparently no longer in Belarus, has gone to Saint Petersburg – according to Lukashenko
But also
Also he suggested Progozhin might be in Moscow instead of St Petersburg, saying “As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in St Petersburg. Where is he this morning? Maybe he went to Moscow in the morning.”
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BBC News - Wagner boss Prigozhin is in Russia, Belarus ruler Lukashenko says
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Maybe bits of him are in St. Petersburg and other bits of him are in Moscow?
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San Francisco better watch out for strange packages.
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Today’s lecture on the dangers of escalation:
As ever, the authors call for negotiations without saying what that would mean, i.e. how much territory Ukraine should sign away in return for ending the war.
Meanwhile Yevgeny Prigozhin’s cosplay photos have been leaked.
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It outlines three main decisions:
· Russia’s nuclear agency (Rosatom) will hold no legal responsibility for nuclear “accidents” in the illegally annexed regions;
· Any citizen of Russia who is affected by such an event has no right to financial compensation;
· There will be no investigations carried out for any nuclear accident in the Russian-occupied territories during the next five years.
Is the “five years” enough time for the radiation to dissipate?
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I think that’s a sauna not a banya.
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Re: Prigozhin’s Crib Search
The only thing missing is a lion and or tiger enclosure and some Adidas track suits. Otherwise all the other Russian gangster boxes are checked.
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Does Prigozhin have or sometimes entertain children? Or is the pool slide for himself?
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