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Originally Posted by Itse
Okay, so, do you have any guess as to why they would even publicize that?
Seems weird. It's somewhat obscure and irrelevant to the lives of people in Russia, and the only narrative I can see it fitting in is "the ruble is effed as a currency".
I'm also wondering, why even make this decision, why now? With the current plan being to make Donetsk officially part of Russia, where does this fit in?
A desperate attempt to appease people of Donetsk?
EDIT: Obviously since it's Russian official news there's a good chance it's not actually true, but... that doesn't help explain anything?
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I agree it doesn't make much sense. The best I can come up with is that since 46% of Donetsk Republic is controlled by Ukranians, they use ukranian currency on roughly half of the territory. So if rebels "liberate" a village, villagers will have to use hrivnas to buy food and it should be allowed, otherwise rebels government will need to hand out a lot of rubles and this basically creates an unnecessary hindrance.