Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop 'NOPEC'

Re:Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop... by petre on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:06PM (#19583864)

Can you buy anything with Russian Roubles outside Russia and maybe former USSR member states? If you can't, the state propaganda is just that: mostly BS.

I'm currently reading books by Russian authors (Vladimir Sorokin, Andrei Kurkov) and there's constant talk about dollars and also roubles when the characters talk about money. It's like both are used to pay for stuff, dollars for black market goods, hitchhike rides, ransom etc. and roubles for regular stuff like alcohol, a taxi ride, a dinner at the Prague restaurant.

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Re:Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop... by ainar-g on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:35PM (#19584252)

Fun fact: you actually can! Or at least used to be able to. About seven years ago I was on vacation in Turkey, somewhere close to Kemer. Besides the Lira, the Dollar, and the Euro, many vendors and cafés accepted Russian Roubles. The exchange rate they used was sometimes rather unfair, but they did accept them. Not sure if this is still the case there.

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Re:Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop... by petre on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:46PM (#19584401)

Probably Egypt as well as it's a popular Russian tourist destination.

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