They’re still in good standing in BRICS - where they have a friendlier audience - that’s the group of emerging global economies - stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Russia is far from isolated.
The BRICS finally voted to fund the new world bank...stating that the current ones run by the UK/US are full of corruption. Why do the sheeple not hear about a new world bank? The answer seems pretty ominous.
More bad news for Ukraine......
French bank ‘BNP Paribas’ said Monday it plans to cut 1,600 jobs at its Ukrainian unit ‘UkrSibBank’ by 2015 due to political uncertainty in the country.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140325/ukraine-french-bank-to-cut-jobs1600-
I was looking to the charts and ruble is actually gaining against dollar at about .3% daily since Crimean takeover. As for today it might be about 1pm in Moscow and dollar has lost more than 1% since opening in the morning.