{"id":3149,"date":"2014-12-17T07:50:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2014-12-17T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:50:34","slug":"ruble-crisis-could-shake-putins-grip-on-power-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"Ruble crisis could shake Putin’s grip on power | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruble crisis could shake Putin’s grip on power | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Reuters) –\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0failed to halt the collapse of the ruble on Tuesday, leaving President Vladimir Putin facing a full-blown currency crisis that could weaken his iron grip on power.<\/p>\n

A 6.5 percentage point interest rate rise to 17 percent overnight failed to prevent the currency hitting record lows in a “perfect storm” of low oil prices, looming recession and Western sanctions over the\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0crisis.<\/p>\n

Putin has blamed the ruble’s crash on speculators and the West, while a presidential spokesman on Tuesday attributed the market turbulence to “emotions and a speculative mood”.<\/p>\n

The rouble lost 11 percent against the dollar on Tuesday, its steepest one-day fall since the Russian financial crisis in 1998. It has fallen 20 percent since the start of the week and more than 50 percent this year.<\/p>\n

As Moscow faced up to the brewing crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said sanctions could be lifted swiftly if Putin takes more steps to ease tensions and lives up to commitments under ceasefire accords to end the\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0conflict.<\/p>\n

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