The bank was created in 1818 to "improve the country's credit ... The origins of the ruble, Russia's official currency, "can be traced back to the 13th century," according to Britannica.

The barrage of sanctions imposed by the West following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine decimated the ruble. But one month after the tanks rolled, the currency has made a full recovery and is now ...

Ekaterina Pravilova’s The Ruble: A Political History persuasively offers Russia’s currency as a case study in the entanglement of money and power, and in so doing, encourages us to understand ...