The recent post-election protests in Russia reflected negatively on the country’s financial markets. As a result, Russia’s two stock indicators severely dropped by 9 and 7 percent respectively; and the greatest drop of 4-5 percent was registered on December 9.    

Foreign analysts note that the Russian stock markets had not reflected this severely on the political processes ever since the Yukos Company Founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s arrest.    

On Monday, however, the stock market indicators rose by close to 2 percent, because of certain stability around the situation, but they still are far from the level one week ago. This increase was also assisted by the Ruble’s gaining some value which, in all likelihood, occurred as a result of an intervention by the Central Bank of Russia.