Ruble Hits Weakest in 15 Months After Wagner Challenges Putin
- Russian currency falls most this year, then erases drop
- Ruble likely to weaken toward 90 per dollar, UniCredit says
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The ruble weakened temporarily by almost 3% against the dollar on Monday, the most this year, after a mutiny by mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brief uprising represents the biggest threat to President Vladimir Putin’s political control in his almost quarter century in power.