Following a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_reform_in_Russia,_1998" id="mwAxU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Monetary reform in Russia, 1998">currency reform</a>, Russia begins to circulate new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_ruble" id="mwAxY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian ruble">rubles</a> to stem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" id="mwAxc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Inflation">inflation</a> and promote confidence.<sup about="#mwt500" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-98"}}' id="cite_ref-98" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-98" id="mwAxg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 98;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAxk">[98]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-98"><cite about="#mwt497" class="citation book cs1" id="mwEHU"><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PT-SAAAAIAAJ" id="mwEHY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwEHc">Economic Trends Quarterly Issue: Kazakstan</i></a>. European Commission, DGIA, NIS/Tacis services. 1999.</cite><span about="#mwt497" class="Z3988" id="mwEHg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Economic+Trends+Quarterly+Issue%3A+Kazakstan&amp;rft.pub=European+Commission%2C+DGIA%2C+NIS%2FTacis+services&amp;rft.date=1999&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPT-SAAAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>