The most valuable banknote ever issued in the Russian Empire was called “ peten’ka ” because it had the image of Peter the Great. It appeared in 1898 and had a value of 500 rubles.

Object of such counterfeiting would presumably be to prevent the holder of a banknote from jumping to the conclusion that the entire issue was inflated when he saw a serial number in the billions.

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When goods are imported to Russia, people or companies have to sell rubles for foreign currency such as dollars or euros. That tends to lower the ruble's exchange rate.

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Russia's largest bank is among the three credit institutions that have joined a digital ruble pilot scheme.

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Therefore, forged 5,000-ruble bills make up nearly one third of them. The most frequently forged foreign currency bank notes are 500 euros and 100 dollars.

MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia will sell 500 billion rubles worth of hard currency from the Reserve Fund, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told the Gaidar Forum in Moscow on Wednesday.

The Russian ruble has fallen a long way in recent months, and the country's central bank is stepping in to halt the slide.