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That’s already factored into the $13b/month burn rate (which has to accommodate a certain amount of ruble buybacks given the residual amount of demand for rubles generated by foreign buyers who need rubles to buy Russian oil).
Hold your butthurt. That is normal for an economy that cannot buy anything due to sanctions. >

"Cannot buy anything???". You will be shocked to learn the amount of products from France , German,Poland and Netherlands on the Russian shelves. >

Maybe that’s because there are no sanctions on groceries? And that wasn‘t what the comment you replied to implied either. >

Actually I just saw a documentary about stores like reserve (polish bran) just going through a middle man like China and rebranding the name to RV but the clothes all have the tags with the actual name. >

Cute. $227 bln "account surplus" but almost $50 bln budget deficit overall. Turns out war is expensive, very expensive.
Not to mention that the month of December alone wiped out the entire year of gains because, as we know it, sanctions don't work. >

So is buying back paper money nobody on the planet actually wants. 
Based on the last months of 2022, their total foreign cash burn rate (energy revenues, war, currency manipulation together) was $13b/year, and their non-frozen non-gold runway was less than $100b tasting them through June. Gold giving them another 6 months. >

China and India and Iran and North Korea are trading in rub.  Probably others as well.   A few drops in the bucket compared to 2021.