Russian prosecutors say police have arrested the suspected mastermind behind last year's contract murder of senior central bank officer and corruption fighter Andrei Kozlov.

The decision by the Central Bank of Liberia to print new 170 million Liberian Dollar notes has led to an outcry among some Liberian lawmakers who say the printing was illegal and unconstitutional. Central Bank Governor Mills Jones told a news conference Tuesday the government printed the new notes not to flood the market but to replenish its operational vault at the bank. Jones also reportedly said there was nothing illegal about the printing of the new bank notes.

An ugly duckling in its infancy, the dram appears to be a daring teenager 13 years after its birthday.

When the Armenian currency was first introduced on November 22, 1993, Armenia was one of the last former Soviet republics to leave the ruble zone (only ahead of Tajikistan) and according to specialists leading the finance sphere back then it was a forced step and should have been taken at least eleven months earlier.