Over two years the Russian economy has been living under the Western sanctions, which, along with sharp decline of oil prices, have since then been frequently used as «the official excuse» for devaluation of the Russian ruble. And despite the attempts of the country's financial authorities to «explain» to the citizens that they should now care not about the ruble exchange rate, but about the inflation rate, reflecting the growth of local prices in national currency, most of the Russians still perceive external shocks as the events which lead to new devaluations of the ruble.