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		coolspot on March 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its w... It’s not illegal in Russia and in fact is very common to store savings in USD/EUR, both in cash or bank deposit form. Nothing bad happened to those forms of savings.

philwelch on March 31, 2022 [–]

I read somewhere that the Russian government prohibited USD/EUR withdrawals once the sanctions started. Cash should still be good though.

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