Central Bank ups refinancing rate once again - to 13%: comments

quotesalim

June 05, 2009, 22:27

Putin should strip central bank independence and keep Russian money in gorvenmant bank. second tax money should go directly in that independent bank which should be gorvenmant bank. Nobody trust the central bank of russia

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