The basic monetary unit of Russia and some other former republics of the USSR, equal to 100 kopeks.
Example sentencesExamples
- Trailfinders recommends travellers take US dollars as you cannot buy or sell roubles outside Russia.
- A 50-year-old bread factory outside Grozny remains under rigid government control, with the price of a loaf fixed at five Russian rubles, or about 15 cents.
- The Russian broker pays for them in roubles, which are converted into dollars by the U.S. broker.
- Yukos shares closed at 143.50 roubles in Russia, having dropped by as much as 12% in earlier trading.
- The rouble plummeted overnight after Russia refused to pay for its internal debts and permitted banks to not fulfil their obligations to foreign partners.