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How Russia made its ruble the world’s top-performing currency

How Russia made its ruble the world’s top-performing currency

The Russian ruble has emerged as the best-performing currency in 2022, despite wide-ranging sanctions imposed for its invasion of Ukraine. How did the Russian currency make a dramatic recovery from its record low of 143 rubles to the dollar on March 7? The rally, experts say, is largely artificial, the result of capital controls imposed by Moscow in the wake of Western sanctions.