Russia just announced they’re keeping their stock market shut for all of next week. So it looks like they’re going to go forward with their sovereign debt default on Wednesday. Not since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Poor Pootie-Poot.
I have a friend who has Imperial Russian railraod bonds. (Collector’s item!). They’re quite beautifully done a real art form. I doubt if Pootie-World bonds are as nice. (Even if they exist in paper form!)