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1. Crime Pays: A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.; Tags: government, law, money, prison, crime

2. Rocket Man Rides, Family Life, and Bootlegging, Russian-style: In this week's Odder News: a forgetful traveler, spaceman transport, and the seal of approval.; Tags: Orthodox Church, money, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, cars, gagarin

3. Big Banks Are Watching You: Russian banks to start testing biometric ATMs. This is probably a good idea.; Tags: technology, business, money

4. How to Become a Millionaire: Go Postal: The Russian Postal Service made more than 170 millionaires in 2019.; Tags: russian post, Russia, money

5. Talk about Inflation!: You won't believe how much a woman in Chelyabinsk is asking for her 1000R bill.; Tags: ruble, money

6. From Fairy Magic to Retirement Planning: Russia's Central Bank believes people's financial illiteracy and economic troubles stem from bad messaging in Russian folk tales. Could it be true?; Tags: saving, money, fairy tales

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

2000: Oscar II class Russian Submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea

1970: The Soviet Union and West Germany signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow, renouncing the use of force and accepting the status quo regarding borders.

1953: Detonation of RDS-6s (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon - a boosted fission bomb, although described at the time as a hydrogen bomb.

1942: Second Moscow Conference begins. Churchill travels to Moscow to meet with Stalin and US representatives.

1759: The Russians under General Soltikov and the Austrians under General Landon defeated 40,000 Prussians under Frederick the Great at the Battle of Kunersdorf in the Seven Years War.

1681: Vitus Bering, explorer, born (died 1741)

1323: Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Russia (Novgorod) establishes the border between the states.

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