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• n  100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia

• One of the first acts of the Soviet government was to repudiate them, and they have never been worth a kopeck since.
• I ordered all the women in my cooperative to cut off their hair and I sold it at a good price and I turned over every kopeck to the Government.
• From house to house, from door to door, uniformed Russian police finecombed the cities of Moscow and Kiev last week, looking for kopecks.

• kopek
• copeck

Quotes

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• Alexander Lukashenko in New York Times
  I have ordered my government to stop transit through Belarus as long as Gazprom does not pay for the transit,Mr. Lukashenko said in a meeting with Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov. "They have not paid one kopeck for a half a...
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky in USA Today
  I did not sign a single contract, I did not receive a single cent from Iraq - not a kopeck,Zhirinovsky told Ekho Moskvy radio.
• Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv Post
  When every kopeck is accounted for, when every hryvnia is critical to act against the world financial crisis, spending half a billion hryvnias on a reckless election is nothing other than acting against the national interest,Tymoshenko said...