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A woman holds a Soviet ruble coin in Moscow on March 24, 2017. A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire. / AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Germain MOYON (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

A woman holds a Soviet ruble coin in Moscow on March 24, 2017.
A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire. / AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Germain MOYON        (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)