The rouble rallied on Feb. 13 and Russian shares also rose on the back of an agreement to end the war in Ukraine and an increase in oil prices, but trading was volatile and analysts said it was too early to say whether the peace deal would hold.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) accompanied by Dmitry Pumpyansky, head of TMK, Russia's largest maker of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, visit the Seversky Tube Works in the town of Polevskoy, outside Yekaterinburg, Urals, on October.