(1) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(2) Under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, anyone promoting "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£100), while businesses and schools could get fines up to 500,000 roubles (£10,000).
(3) The rouble is in freefall – it’s lost 40% of its value since the beginning of the year – Putin is resurgent and every week comes the news that another independent media outlet is being closed or the editor sacked and a government stooge appointed in their place.
(4) Those who were used to travelling abroad have already had to scale back as the rouble made the cost of visiting foreign cities prohibitive; and rising food prices have made it harder to balance the books for many families.
(5) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
(6) They are between a rock and a hard place.” Putin said in his state of the nation address earlier this month that Russians should take advantage of sanctions and the falling rouble to develop domestic industry.
(7) Such a project could take years and billions of taxpayer roubles.
(8) Navalny was jailed and given a 20,000-rouble (£280) fine by a Moscow court for disobeying police orders and organising the protests, which led to more than 1,000 people being detained.
(9) Economic losses including damage caused by temporary disability, invalidity and premature deaths accounted for 11.1 million roubles.
(10) Since the start of the year, stock markets have lost 14% of their value and the rouble is down 8% against the dollar.
(11) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(12) In 2015, roughly 1bn roubles (£10.2m) was sidelined for Cossack groups in the Kuban region, the RBC newspaper reported .
(13) • Russian market indexes plummeted and the central bank sold $10bn in an effort to stop a slide of the rouble.
(14) As the eurozone is easing monetary policy to ward off deflation, Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 9.5% from 8% in an attempt to address a sliding rouble and tackle inflation.
(15) Putin will next year increase its global budget by 40% to 15.38bn roubles (£183m), up from 11.87bn roubles this year.
(16) Those charged with breaking the law will be fined from 5,000 (£108) to 500,000 roubles.
(17) Russia is spending 2.3tn roubles (£22bn) to shore up its economy as sanctions bite and after its debt was downgraded to junk.
(18) The rouble rallied again in the afternoon, recovering from a low point of over 100 to the euro to reach the 90 mark, but that figure still leaves Russians stunned, given the rate at the beginning of this year.
(19) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(20) Early on Tuesday, the rouble hit 52.88 to the dollar, its strongest since 8 December.
Ruble
Definition:
(n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruble also hit its weakest level ever against the euro, at 50.03.
(2) Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency - the Eurasian ruble?
(3) Identification of a lesion in the lung, mediastinum or thoracic wall, whatever its nature, costed 18.8 rubles.
(4) 10.40am GMT Europe’s stock markets are a classic ‘sea of red’: Photograph: Thomson Reuters 10.35am GMT In Moscow, the ruble’s tumble to record lows against the US dollar and euro is clearly on display: A currency exchange office in downtown Moscow this morning.
(5) He may find himself with asset freezes, on Russian business, American business may pull back, there may be a further tumble of the ruble.” Claiming Moscow was already isolated in the face of united condemnation from western allies, Kerry told ABC’s This Week that Putin was inviting “very serious repercussions” such as visa bans and asset freezes for Russian leaders and even economic sanctions.
(6) It recently transpired that he will spend 15 million rubles (£155,000) on a new football pitch in Nizhny Tagil, where he plans to open a football school.
(7) In 1981-1987, 595 outpatient cases of cancer of various sites underwent radiotherapy at the Regional Oncological Dispensary, Chelyabinsk, which saved 317181.25 rubles.
(8) A 2012 report by the government's audit chamber found about 15bn rubles (about £260m) in "unreasonable" cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.
(9) He may find himself with asset freezes, on Russian business, American business may pull back, there may be a further tumble of the ruble.” The Obama administration is also working with the European Union and International Monetary Fund to fast-track a package of financial aid and loans, in order to shore-up Ukraine’s economy.
(10) The Bok o Bok festival won an appeal last month against a 400,000 rubles (almost £8,000) fine imposed on it after being named a "foreign agent" (ie, in receipt of funding from overseas) by authorities.
(11) Also on Wednesday, the Duma gave initial approval to a new libel law that would introduce fines of up to 500,000 rubles (£9,850) and sentences of up to five years in prison.
(12) Enzymic therapy helped reduce the length of inpatient therapy of a patient by 5.93 days on an average in cases with orchidoepididymitis and by 14.64 days in gonorrhea relapses, with the economic effect per worker being 131.4 and 307.2 rubles, respectively.
(13) Taking into account these data on approximate value for the whole country will amount to no less than 3.4 billion rubles.
(14) Five Russian cinema chains have been fined a total of more than 4m rubles (£68,000) for showing Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street in apparent contravention of laws banning the promotion of illegal drugs.
(15) In the first three months of 2014, the ruble lost 9 percent against the dollar, making imports more expensive, while spooked investors pulled about $70 billion out of the country more than in all of 2013.
(16) This has prompted a downgrade of Russian debt by international credit rating agencies and a slide in the ruble, but to be effective the economic warfare needs support from larger trading partners in Europe and Asia.
(17) A Russian film festival that mounts screenings and discussions relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues has been fined 500,000 rubles (almost £10,000) and named as a "foreign agent" by authorities .
(18) Hospital stays related to early or late complications also amounted to 32,723 bed days at a cost of total postabortal complications of 1,839,230 rubles.
(19) Russian law was recently changed regarding public gatherings to dramatically raise the fine for taking part in an unauthorised protest to 300,000 rubles (£6,000).
(20) It increases fines for individual participants 150 times to 300,000 rubles (£6,000) and for organisers to 1 million rubles.