A man walks past a currency exchange point in Moscow on October 24, 2008. Both of Russia's main stock markets plummeted more than 13 percent on October 24 prompting the government to suspend trading on them until October 28, the exchanges said. Getty Images logo Getty Images 13 months ago

A man walks past a currency exchange point in Moscow on October 24, 2008. Both of Russia's main stock markets plummeted more than 13 percent on October 24 prompting the government to suspend trading on them until October 28, the exchanges said.

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