Is The Central Bank Of Russia Saying Goodbye To Crimea?

The new 100-ruble bill no longer features the occupied peninsula.

Yesterday, the Bank of Russia put an updated 100-ruble banknote into circulation, dedicated to the Central Federal District. The front of the note features a section of the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower with its chimes and the coat of arms, while the reverse side depicts the Rzhev Memorial, according to Russian media reports, as noted by "Zerkalo Nedeli. Ukraine”.

However, the main difference in the new banknote that has piqued Ukrainians’ interest is the absence of the temporarily occupied Crimea. Although on the 2022-model banknote, behind the monument and the cranes, the Russians had depicted a map of the Russian Federation in which the peninsula was part of Russia, this is absent from the updated banknote—it now features a map of the Central Federal District.

Blogger Dmitry Chernyshev drew attention to this.
“Please play the song ‘We Left Crimea’ for the Central Bank’s leadership,” he wrote.

As a reminder, on June 26, the occupying authorities declared a state of emergency in Crimea and Sevastopol. This occurred after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved the launch of a 40-day operation aimed at exerting pressure on Russia, with the goal of forcing the Russian Federation to the negotiating table.

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