By devaluing a currency in a floating exchange rate environment, the result is that trade booms and foreign reserves balloon.

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She also introduced a floating exchange rate regime and lifted controls on currency trading.

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This exchange rate liberalization has continued and while the ruble is not a freely floating currency, it is much closer to being one that it was in the past.

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