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Cuba: owing obsolete rubles

Written byNicholas Laughlin

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Posted 20 December 2011 18:16 GMT

Cuba has a longstanding debt to Russia of 20 million Soviet rubles — a currency that no longer exists. Machetera asks: “how and when do you decide what a vanished currency is really worth?”

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