$1 = 36.55 RUB now versus 36.08 in Feb
Putin must be sweating a little bit...
Cheers,
Scott.
Interesting - The Ruble is weaker now then during the GrRec.
http://www.xe.com/cu...D&to=RUB&view=10Y
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dunno, with putin asserting (rightfully) control over the
Crimea you think investors will rush to the ruble? only if there are large fracking deposits there
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No, I think they'll run away.
With Kerry and others talking about possible economic sanctions, putting money into Russia (i.e. into Rubles) is risky. Thus that graph goes up - it takes more Rubles to buy a Dollar. Changing from Rubles to Dollars (or Yen or whatever) will get more expensive.
Of course currency speculation is dangerous and nobody knows what will happen from one day to the next (Roughly: "The quickest way to make a small fortune in the currency markets is to start with a large fortune." (though that may have been "commodities" rather than "currency").), but you get the idea. Cheers, Scott. |
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No, that was airlines.
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That too. :-)
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"Was" is the operative word there.
With the consolidation, they're minting money now.
Alex
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Rightfully?
The only reason the Crimea is full of Russians is because Stalin shipped out the Tatars who lived there, replacing them with "lucky" (it's a dry, arid shithole by all accounts) Russians.
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So the charge of the lightbrigade was against the tartars?
Sevastapol was "founded" by Catherine in the 1700's and has been exclusively held by russia ever since.
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Sevastopol != Crimea
Hero city, separate stuffs.
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Rightfully my ass!
Ask the Tatars who were the majority there until Stalin shipped them out to Asia. And they want to move back to Crimea!
Also, using your logic, Russia can invade and claim a good part of Brooklyn (NYC). Besides, I was born in Crimea (not part of Ukraine at the time) and being Ukrainian at the time can claim it for Ukraine. :) Alex
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So it was not part of the ukraine at the time of your birth
it wasn't tatarstan either :-}so something magical happened that 3 centuries of russian ownership changed into western wah wah about Ukraine SOVEREIGNTY over Tartarstan. It didn't work out so well last time the west went to war in the Crimea, it was a win but one hell of a cost in lives.
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One hell of a cost in lives . . .
. . mainly due to British stupidity. After the Light Brigade, and other events, they changed the rules so commanding officers had to be trained in military schools. Before that, they just needed the correct social rank.
Henry VIII watched his newest battleship, the Mary Rose, sink before his eyes due to similar stupidity of the nobility. He changed the rules for the Navy so the Chief Boatswain owned the ship and the crew. The officers could tell him where the ship was to go - but not how to get it there. Crimea was transfered to Ukraine by the Soviet Union - run by Russia - so it must have been with Russian approval. Of course, in those days, they called Ukraine "Little Russia". |
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Check your Wikipedia.
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is an international treaty signed on 5 December 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories in connection to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear-powers, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. China and France later gave individual statements of assurance as well.My emphasis. The Tatars support the revolution in Kiev. As far as I'm concerned the Tatars could go independent in Crimea. It's not a question of Ukrainian land grabs. Of course, the Tatars originally pushed out the Greeks way back when. It's no accident that so many city names end in "pol". So would you be in favor of Mexico grabbing Southern California? Alex
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I thought they already did?
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What about Turkey?
I read recently that there is an older treaty that means if Russia tries to occupy Crimea, it actually reverts to Turkey. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article about said treaty is not an easy read.
http://en.wikipedia....of_Küçük_Kaynarca Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
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You're right!
Crimea and the Tatar inhabitants were a protectorate of the Ottoman empire.
Alex
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well that is why the Crimean war started inittially
russians trying to protect slavs and orthodox christians was it not?
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Russia was in an expansioinst mode.
The Tatars hadn't quite figured out that agriculture thing made regular marauding raids deep into Ukraine and even Polish territories. They brought the grain, goods, young women and some boys back to Crimea. They exported slaves to Turkey. The Cossacks were established on the Dnieper River near the current city of Zaporizhia (and various other spellings) to keep them at bay.
Kathrine II tried to push back the Ottoman empire all around the Black Sea, out of the Balkans, and even hoped to return Constantinople to Christian control. That didn't quite happen, but Crimea was invaded and captured in 1768. Alex
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they needed a warm water port and cuba was too far back then
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But hey, with global warming . . .
. . they can have as many ports as they want - they don't even need Sevastopol.
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When the heck isn't it...
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when it is being invaded by the europeans or the turks
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