“Prices in shops were given in both Russian roubles and Ukrainian hryvnia; pensioners were paid in roubles”
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Well, payment of Ukrainian pensions (by the Russians) in rubles in those areas will end now. Will payment of pensions in Hryvnia (the Ukrainian currency) by the Zelensky government be restarted?
We’ll see.
The Ukies are creating new Buchas in this area as we type.
Russia didn’t pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/16/ukraine-life-in-mariupol-under-russian-occupation
house Atrocious -- Russia in 1991 declared itself the successor state to the USSR, so inherited the USSR's seats in various international organizations but also inherited the USSR's debts and obligations
Just a note - the USSR declared that it WASN'T a successor state to the Russian Tsardom, so it was a new country - that's why the USSR and Soviet Ukraine occupied two separate seats in the UN