Defense Chief Offers His Two Rubles’ Worth
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From Times Wire Reports
Russian Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov invented a new unit of currency: “That thing you are not allowed to say.”
Russia’s parliament is in the process of adopting a law that will fine government ministers for expressing amounts in dollars instead of rubles.
Telling reporters about a contract to supply fighter aircraft to Venezuela, Ivanov said the deal had “a value of more than 1 billion of that thing that you are not allowed to say anymore.”
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