This is something that has been building up for a while. You could see it best in the RUR to USD rate, which was at an all-time low this year at about 23, but

This is something that has been building up for a while. You could see it best in the RUR to USD rate, which was at an all-time low this year at about 23, but has been crawling back up to 26 ever since the Russia-Georgia conflict. Is it all connected to the war or not? Many of my friends in Russian finance say it's just a 'course correction', but you never know...