MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - The pro-presidential United Russia faction backs a proposal by the head of Russia's Public Chamber to ban MPs and officials from using the terms "dollar" and "euro" in domestic economic debates, a faction top official said Friday.
"This is a very timely initiative," Vyacheslav Volodin said commenting on the initiative voiced by academician Yevgeny Velikhov Thursday. "We believe we should use only the word 'ruble'."
"If today government members [and] deputies calculate expenses and revenue in foreign currency, speak and think about foreign currency, we will never establish our national currency," he said.
"We need to start with ourselves, to convince society that our ruble is the most stable currency, and that it's strengthening," Volodin said.
Volodin said the lives of Russians could improve if officials dealing with finance and economics were to begin counting everything in rubles.
