© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee holds Russian 1000-rouble banknotes next to a currency counting machine in a bank office in Moscow, Russia, in this illustration picture taken October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Illustration By Elena Fabrichnaya, Alexander Marrow and Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank on Thursday endorsed President Vladimir Putin’s decision to
