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2012–13 KHL season

The salary cap changed from a soft cap to a hard cap, set at 1.1 billion rubles (approx. US$36.5 million), but each club can waive the cap for one player transferred directly from the NHL, if he is eligible to play for the Russian national team.

Boris Onishchenko

Two months later it was reported he had been called before Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for a personal scolding, dismissed from the Red Army, fined 5,000 rubles, stripped of all his sporting honours, and was working as a taxi driver in Kiev.

Duilio Poggiolini

At the time of his arrest over 15 billion lire in an account in Switzerland was seized registered to his wife, Maria Di Pierr Poggiolini: In addition to a house in Naples, the couple had several billion francs in gold ingots, jewels, paintings and ancient and modern coins (including gold Tsar Nicholas II rubles and South African Krugerrand).

Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR

To be distinguished from the Glinka Award (of 500 rubles) won in 1904 by Rachmaninov, and three times by Reinhold Glière.

Grand Duke Dimitri Constantinovich of Russia

Acting on his advice, the Imperial Stud purchased Galtee More, who had won the Derby in Great Britain, for an astronomical 200,000 rubles; as soon as he arrived in Russia, the thoroughbred was put to stud at Tsarskoye Selo.

Irbit Fair

From forty to fifty million rubles worth of goods are exchanged there during the four weeks devoted to traffic.

Iskander Makhmudov

In November 2012, it was announced that TMH had increased its net profit by 9 percent to 2.69 billion rubles.

John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

He was sent to Russia in 1650, where he obtained a loan of 20,000 rubles from the tsar, and, soon after his return, to the Netherlands, to procure military assistance.

Justinas Pranaitis

In 1894 Pranaitis was subject to legal proceedings on a charge of blackmail (for demanding 1000 rubles from a framing workshop in indemnification for a spoilt cheap picture which he claimed to be a picture by Murillo).

National Sovereignty Party of Russia

In response, representatives of the party filed a lawsuit for libel and demanded to recover from Berel Lazar 1.3 million rubles In 2004 the court ordered Berel Lazar to apologize and pay damages of 100 rubles.

Polivoks

Its retail price upon release was 920 rubles and over its lifetime around 100,000 Polivoks were manufactured - sometimes with a production rate of up to 1,000 units a month.

Prince George of Kartli

In 1785, he donated 10,000 rubles to the Imperial University of Moscow.

Rodolfo B. Valentino

In his trip to Wuhan in China, Valentino explored the possibility by using rubles for raw materials.

Russky Bridge

In January 2007, Vladimir Putin, then-President of Russia, stated that holding a summit in Vladivostok is a distinct possibility, and that at least 100 billion rubles would be required to prepare the city for the summit, which, at the time, was three-times more than the budget of Primorsky Krai as a whole.

Telkom-3

This triggered discussion on the crisis in the Russian space industry with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev quoted as saying "We are losing authority and billions of rubles" due to the frequent launch failures.


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