And the ruble is worth it

The headlines of the Russian media reflect the rotation of the main currencies around the ruble

Information agencies of Russia mastered the art of a "foreign exchange" title.

The message of Russian President Vladimir Putin was marked by the intense activity of the exchange rate.

“The official euro fell below 65 rubles,” said Lenta.ru .

“The Central Bank lowered the euro by almost 2.5 rubles,” the tape echoes the title in the “Russian newspaper” . The illustration of the publication reflects the dynamics - the dollar and the euro swim in the photo in muddy water.

"The official euro of the euro on Friday fell by 2.4 rubles," the fall of the euro did not go unnoticed for the newspaper.ru .

The TASS agency in the title immediately indicated the official link: "The Central Bank of the Russian Federation lowered the dollar by 1.69 rubles to 52.69 rubles on December 5." The photograph is a magnificent building, which controls this very dollar so mercilessly, dictating a decrease in its course.

In parallel with this news, TASS recommends reading a note under the heading "ECB worsened forecasts for inflation of the Eurozone from 2014 to 2016." Here, however, there were without photographs, and so everything is clear.

Foreign media that kindly attaches Yandex to the Russian ones. "The dollar and euro strengthened the growth to the ruble against the backdrop of decreasing oil prices," the Ukrainian portal Bin.ua suddenly writes, starting in the calculus from the inviolability of the Russian currency.

It is noteworthy that approximately the same as world currencies, the products of world firms behave. On December 3, on the eve of the speech of Vladimir Putin, the agency exploded with information about the folk. “Free potatoes rose to the ruble,” said “Evening Moscow” . “Bigmak did not survive,” RBC complained. The timid refutation of "Echo of Moscow" is that foreign goods do not behave as shamelessly as foreign currencies, drowned in the choir of criticism of Free potatoes. The RBC agency, by the way, on December 2 , escorted the dollar down: "The official dollar exchange rate dropped below 51 rubles."

But now it is in the past. “After the start of Putin’s performance, euro and dollar courses jumped sharply,” the Kurs.ru portal said at 13 o’clock in Moscow on December 4.

It’s good that one remains unshakable. In these crazy fluctuations of solid currencies, the ruble is upside down.

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  Irina Lagunina

  Head of Special Projects of Russian Service Radio Liberty

  Laguninai@rferl.org