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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (103617)	11/7/2013 1:38:43 AM
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More "de-Americanization" of the world... ;) Russia Seeks a Ruble Symbol - The Bank of Russia is set to raise the currency's profile on the world stage. online.wsj.com By Andrey Ostroukh and James Marson Nov. 6, 2013 8:47 p.m. ET MOSCOW—Empires come and go, but Russians have had the ruble for centuries. What they lack is a good, easily recognizable symbol for it. The Bank of Russia is set to change that, in a bid to raise the currency's profile on the world stage. After reviewing more than 1,000 options, the central bank chose five finalists and put them on its website. Russians have until Dec. 5 to vote for their favorite. The first two options are variants on the Russian letter R, which in Cyrillic looks like the letter P in the Latin alphabet. The other three try to simultaneously show the Cyrillic and Latin letters for Ru.