Russia's President Vladimir Putin reads documents during his meeting with Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on March 5, 2014.
Photo by AFP PHOTO/ POOL/ YURI KADOBNOV
The ruble today hit its lowest exchange rate against the euro since the creation of the European single currency in 1999.