MOSCOW - Russian Central Bank has no hesitation regarding its right to place any images, including that of a controversial World War Two monument in Vilnius, on the ruble coins, the Bank said Wednesday, Aug. 3.
Earlier in the week, Lithuanian Foreign Ministry slammed Russia for minting the coins bearing an image of the monument to the Soviet “liberators” in Vilnius. The monument was erected in the Lithuanian capital in 1952 and remained there until 2015 when it was demolished.
The 5-ruble coin was released on Aug. 1 with the circulation of two million...
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