Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Robert Person: Is Russia heading for a new 1998 crisis?
A woman walks under a board listing foreign currency rates against the Russian ruble, outside an exchange office in central Moscow, on Oct. 13, 2014.
Not since the financial crisis of Aug. 1998 has Russia faced the very real possibility of a currency crisis that could seriously threaten the fundamental stability of the country's economic and political system.