YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t rule out that Russia and Armenia will start making calculations in their national currencies, Novosti-Armenia reports.

“To expand and diversify trade, room for mutual calculations in national currencies are being considered now,” the Russian president told journalists after meeting with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan. --0---

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for switching more actively to sub-national currencies in mutual settlements in CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, Tass reported from Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan

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Russian president Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) that calls on some former Soviet republics making the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to abandon US dollar and euro as settlement currencies for their transactions, vesti.ru reports citing the Russian president’s official website

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has sent to the State Duma a bill proposing to ban senior officials and their relatives from having accounts in foreign banks and holding securities issued by foreign bodies

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EurAsEC heads of government agreed to continue to coordinate the anti-crisis measures, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced on Friday.

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