New measures require Russian banks to confirm large ATM withdrawals through customer calls, indicating a shift in fraud detection practices from January 1.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They did this at the start of the war, as well. It was to help keep the ruble somewhat stable, to prevent bank runs - and to minimize resources available to people who who might be tempted to leave Russia.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Since then the ruble has become basically worthless (the ruble economy is so small Nabula/central bank can prop it up) because nobody uses it anymore except russia.

So quite a different situation IMO. Makes me remember a russian friand back in the day, her parents used all their saved money to send her "abroad" (to france) some year before russia just confiscated all wealth over some, IIRC, 20.000 rubles(?). So she got lucky.

This smells of authorianism going bankrupty. Or so I hope!