The name of the currency is related with the Russian word for money which was borrowed from Turkic.

该货币的名称同俄语里指钱的词语有关，但借用自土耳其语。

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The name of the Belarusian currency comes from the Russian rouble and was left after the collapse of the Soviet monetary system and Belarus "refusal to introduce a national currency."

白俄罗斯的货币的名称来源于俄罗斯货币—卢布，苏联货币体系崩溃后以留下来的；白俄罗斯却拒绝发行自己的民族货币。

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Norwegian Krone (currency code NOK) is the name of the currency used in Norway.

挪威克朗(货币代码NOK)是现在挪威的流通货币。

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The bar is called Pewex, the name of a chain of hard-currency stores from the communist era where Poles could buy Western products if they had the dollars.

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Our guess is that the boys were making a pun based on the word's similarity to the name of Vietnam's currency.

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Note each foreign central bank such as China, India and Russia just to name 3 of the BRIC aristos, who continue to amass gold as a currency reserve instead of the dollar or the euro.

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