Gazprom's sales rose 38% to 1.32 trillion roubles, compared with 954.3 billion roubles a year earlier.
The Bolshoi has been going through a major renovation costing many billions of roubles.
Mukhtar and Marat say they live on around 2, 500 roubles and send the rest home.
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Mr Putin's first response was to order exporters to turn all their hard-currency receipts into roubles.
The Russian government set aside 200 billion roubles for anti-crisis support to local companies this year, too.
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They said the stolen pack of cigarettes was worth 1.5 roubles, or just under five US cents.
By contrast, the Yavlinsky plan envisages inter-republic trade being conducted in roubles, even after separate currencies emerge.
On December 2nd moneychangers began advertising for the first time a rate exceeding 6, 000 roubles to the dollar.
Around 26 billion roubles were already distributed in the form of state guarantees.
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He is alleged to have misappropriated shares worth billions of roubles in 1998.
Foreign investors, who were said to be the main sellers in both debt and equity markets, were also dumping roubles.
Of the three men who admitted to earning serious roubles last year, two had little choice but to go public.
He earned around 3.6 million roubles in 2011, down from 5 million roubles in 2010, according Ria Novosti newswire, citing government data.
Even reformers in the government think printing roubles is inevitable, whoever replaces the central bank's chairman, Sergei Dubinin, who resigned this week.
The city, they say, pays its street staff 1, 000 roubles more in the snowy months to compensate for the back-breaking nocturnal clean-ups.
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Under Russia's military modernisation plans, costing nearly 4.5tn roubles, the navy will get 51 new warships and 24 submarines by 2020, Vesti reports.
Barclays said the deficit means Russia will be looking at around 980 billion roubles from the debt markets versus 730 billion roubles this year.
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The government has earmarked 25bn roubles for the national emergency effort.
Meanwhile, VTB will invest a further 100bn roubles to recapitalise the bank - taking its ownership share from 46% to 75%, enough to qualify for state aid.
Others made money selling hard-currency life insurance just after the crash, when dollars were scarce and Russians were desperately seeking ways of preserving their roubles from inflation.
For a start, the devaluation of the rouble has created a huge mismatch between assets (such as they are), mostly in roubles, and liabilities, which are often dollar-denominated.
Yet in mad Minsk the central bank stood by an official rate of 33, 460 roubles to the dollar, and currency kiosks were obediently posting a rate of 42, 000.
The government has now backed away from the hard-currency-into-roubles proposal.
Pantyushin wrote in a note to clients this week that the investment bank expects Russian budget deficits to return in 2012, and forecast the full-year figure at 600 billion roubles or just 1.0% of GDP.
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Playing the good tsar disappointed by his bad advisers, he blamed ministers and regional administrators, and ordered a bigger and earlier pension boost than had been planned (240 roubles a month, instead of just 100).
My first time here, I forgot to calculate the exchange rate and when a cabbie charged me three thousand roubles to get me from the airport to the hotel I thought I was being robbed.
Mr Putin has given it a cheque for 25 billion roubles and promised to pay for transporting Lada cars through six time-zones to Russia's far east, where most people long ago ditched Ladas for second-hand Japanese cars.
With many Russians also wary of hanging on to roubles until after the planned redenomination on January 1st, which will relaunch the currency at 6.1 to the dollar, the central bank will be hard-pressed to hold the line until then.
So Russian workers, who will have to save more roubles than before to buy flats (which are priced in dollars) and foreign-made goods, are not likely to see those costs compensated by new jobs, much less higher wages or, for that matter, by wages paid in cash instead of in kind.
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