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Stock market crash
On both Russian exchanges there is a fall in prices for all securities. The RTS index fell by 9.05 percent. Share prices on the MICEX Stock Exchange decreased by an average of 9.65 percent. Trading on the MICEX was stopped ahead of schedule yesterday - the last time this happened was two and a half years ago, when Khodorkovsky was arrested. It appears that something out of the ordinary is going on. The decline in Russian stock prices is due to the ongoing correction in prices for metals and energy resources on world markets.