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Russia defaults on foreign debt for first time since 1918 - The Boston Globe
Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors.
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The sanctions are starting to hurt. The first Russian default since 1918.