The reader who opens the book by Sergei Aleksashenko gets a unique opportunity to check the fairness of the assessments and the quality of the forecasts of one of the leading Russian financiers. “The Battle for the Ruble” was written by the former first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia hot on the heels of the 1998 default and was being prepared for re-release on the tenth anniversary of those dramatic events. But in the fall of 2008, the problem of financial turmoil, which was already of seemingly purely historical interest, suddenly again acquired burning relevance. The battle for the ruble continues, but today its participants are armed with experience, interpreted in the book by Sergei Aleksashenko.