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In a bizarre incident highlighting Ukraine's financial troubles, the head of Ukraine's central bank, in the presence of journalists, tried and failed to buy $200 in cash from the nearest bank as the country remains gripped seized by a dollar drought. Adding to the intrigue, the bank in question was Russian state-owned Sberbank. 

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