The multi-currency system in the DPR
Zakharchenko has confirmed that the Donetsk People's Republic already effectively migrated to a multi-currency system and that the social obligations are fulfilled in rubles, dollars, and euros due to the lack of hryvna. Also, the republican leadership obliges the state structures and enterprises with other forms of ownership to accept all of the aforementioned currencies as a legal tender.
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Absent a proper version with English subtitles, the only option here for people who cannot understand spoken or written Russian is the so-called "drunken sailor option" - the machine translation of the machine-generated Russian transcript, which is available through the Settings Gear in the lower left corner => Subtitles/CC => Translate Captions option in the Youtube window. If you happen to have a link to a properly translated version of this video, then please send it to me or post it in the comments.]Effectively, the process of separating the DPR economy from Ukraine continues. Kiev consciously tears these links by itself and pushed the DPR into a zone where different currencies circulate.
Original article: http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2102032.html (in Russian)