Rubles Only Deal and Population Questions in Russia
Posted by HCN on Thursday, March 24, 2022
Rubles, roubles, the term has been around a long time, what does it mean in March of 2022? Considering the strife upon Ukraine currently, the popular context is the Russian ruble.
It has made the news in a dotted manner over the past few days, showing up on newspapers in a number of languages, Russia accepting rubles only. What is causing acceptance method to make the news?
According to statistics over the past week, the ruble had a marked downturn around the first week of March 2022, then at about the middle of the month, a sharp upswing.
Russia is a huge supplier of natural gas. The industry keeps going even though the military activities.
Is it possible, perhaps insofar values and parity rates, ruble went down post economic move to mitigate Russian might post 'Ukraine invasion day', and given demand for gas maintains, rubles have or will go back up if that is the form of payment when paying Russia?
What is the eye catching thing about the population of Russia? Most everyday statistical sources in the US will probably say it has just over 144 million. The contrast to China got brought up, when the crucial debate made advent in recent weeks about alignments with respect to the military move about Ukraine. China sits with popular statistics of 1.4 billion. According to math (it appears to be correct), in numbers of people, Russia has a population equivocating to about 10.3% of what the population of China is. Math simple, China has about 10 times more people than Russia, while Russia is almost twice as big in geographic land square miles; is that reality?
in population
True, China is known for astounding population densities. Is the contrast in population that stark though? Folks have been writing about the population differences. One thing they note is there are over 250 million cell phone subscribers in Russia, according to an article in Russian from a January 2019 Versia dot ru article, reference ...v-rossii-zhivut-vsego.... Making sense out of the figures in these articles, there is a noticeable swing, anywhere from 70 million to some counts, to nearing 170 million. With the phone stat, here come the option A or B question.
A- Are the phone subscribers telling the truth, or is there really only 144 million people in Russia, not fractioning kids too young to have a phone, and cell phone customers with one phone are telling cell phone subscriptions they are somebody else; same guy, multiple cell phone accounts using different names?
B- There might be 250 million plus people subscribing to cell phones, not counting vagaries between the two extremes, leaving wonder as to what makes the discrepancy.
Foreign workers, immigrants, there are a lot of things going on in the big country in Russia; they plausibly contend with the same or similar problems other advanced large countries do. The real questions, where is everyone at all times, what are they doing, who is each individual really, where are they going, what are they doing and about to do, do they live double and triple lives?
Written and published evening March 23, 2022 EST
It has made the news in a dotted manner over the past few days, showing up on newspapers in a number of languages, Russia accepting rubles only. What is causing acceptance method to make the news?
According to statistics over the past week, the ruble had a marked downturn around the first week of March 2022, then at about the middle of the month, a sharp upswing.
Russia is a huge supplier of natural gas. The industry keeps going even though the military activities.
Is it possible, perhaps insofar values and parity rates, ruble went down post economic move to mitigate Russian might post 'Ukraine invasion day', and given demand for gas maintains, rubles have or will go back up if that is the form of payment when paying Russia?
What is the eye catching thing about the population of Russia? Most everyday statistical sources in the US will probably say it has just over 144 million. The contrast to China got brought up, when the crucial debate made advent in recent weeks about alignments with respect to the military move about Ukraine. China sits with popular statistics of 1.4 billion. According to math (it appears to be correct), in numbers of people, Russia has a population equivocating to about 10.3% of what the population of China is. Math simple, China has about 10 times more people than Russia, while Russia is almost twice as big in geographic land square miles; is that reality?
in population
True, China is known for astounding population densities. Is the contrast in population that stark though? Folks have been writing about the population differences. One thing they note is there are over 250 million cell phone subscribers in Russia, according to an article in Russian from a January 2019 Versia dot ru article, reference ...v-rossii-zhivut-vsego.... Making sense out of the figures in these articles, there is a noticeable swing, anywhere from 70 million to some counts, to nearing 170 million. With the phone stat, here come the option A or B question.
A- Are the phone subscribers telling the truth, or is there really only 144 million people in Russia, not fractioning kids too young to have a phone, and cell phone customers with one phone are telling cell phone subscriptions they are somebody else; same guy, multiple cell phone accounts using different names?
B- There might be 250 million plus people subscribing to cell phones, not counting vagaries between the two extremes, leaving wonder as to what makes the discrepancy.
Foreign workers, immigrants, there are a lot of things going on in the big country in Russia; they plausibly contend with the same or similar problems other advanced large countries do. The real questions, where is everyone at all times, what are they doing, who is each individual really, where are they going, what are they doing and about to do, do they live double and triple lives?
Written and published evening March 23, 2022 EST
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