MOSCOW - The weakness of the ruble is hurting Russia, which has lost tens of billions of dollars because of sanctions imposed by the West in the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Dec. 10.
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A pedestrian walks past a board listing foreign currency rates against the Russian ruble outside an exchange office in central Moscow on Dec. 1, 2014.