This Reuters article describes a new Russian banknote touting its annexation of Crimea. -Editor
Russia on Wednesday issued a new banknote dedicated to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed last year, in a move likely to anger
Kiev which says it wants the territory back.
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in March last year in a military operation denounced by the West which imposed retaliatory sanctions
on Moscow that remain in place.
The new banknote, worth 100 rubles ($1.41), depicts a memorial to sunken ships in the port of Sevastopol, where Russia keeps its Black
Sea Fleet, and the Swallow's Nest, a cliff top castle near Yalta.
The yellow-colored note also features a watermark of Empress Catherine the Great, who extended the borders of the Russian Empire in the
eighteenth century to absorb Crimea.
Russia's central bank said in a statement it would issue 20 million of the new notes. It has previously minted a 10 rouble coin to
celebrate Russia's control of Crimea.
To read the complete article, see:
Russia issues Crimea banknote in move
likely to irk Ukraine (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-banknote-idUSKBN0U60ZE20151223)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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