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Let me tell you an old Jewish anecdote from Odesa (Ukrainian city with a significant Jewish population; russians hit a residential building there using a missile strike today, a few people died, 1 kid among them). - Moisha, what’s the price of this meat? - Abraham, it is 300 UAH/kilogram. - But your neighbor is selling at 200 UAH/kg. Why yours is so expensive? - Why don’t you buy there then? - He doesn’t have it anymore. - Well, when I don’t have meat, I sell it at 100 UAH/kg.

So, the price can be any when you don’t have a free market. In USSR, the official exchange rate was 0,7 rouble per dollar. Black market was 2-3 (might differ, depending on the year, of course).

Recently I have seen photo with X-rates in moscow: USD buying at 70, selling at 300 EUR buying at 80, selling at 100 Looks silly, right? Everyone knows EUR costs more than USD. The reason is the same as in the anecdote above.