But as far as I remember you’d get jail time for exchanging roubles for any other currency…
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And what did you get in the US for trying to organize the exchange of rubles for dollars?
You’d get a bad rate.
with sentences up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine
Bullshit, no US citizen was fined or jailed for that, while a lot of Russians were jailed for buying foreign currencies.
