The Russian Rouble above (click here) has gained value due to natural gas exports. Worth a little more than a penny now, when natural gas values went up so did Russian curreny. There are a lot of reasons to convent to alternative fuels and Russia is still another reason. Russia achieves income from the petroleum industry.
...The recovery of the Russian ruble coincides with the decline in the dollar exchange rate, during the trading of the Moscow Stock Exchange, to below 72 rubles to the dollar for the first time since last June....
December 23, 2021
A Moscow court on Thursday (click here) said it had fined Twitter TWTR.N 3 million roubles ($40,920) for failing to delete content Russia deems illegal, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign technology firms.
Moscow has increased pressure on Big Tech this year in a campaign that critics characterise as an attempt by the Russian authorities to exert tighter control over the internet, something they say threatens to stifle individual and corporate freedom.
Twitter has denied allowing its platform to be used to promote illegal behaviour.Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Moscow's Tagansky District Court said Twitter had been fined 3 million roubles for failing to delete banned content....
