Uganda has discovered 14 Trillion dollars worth of gold, not rubles worth. A gold asteroid can turn all gold into worthless. After all, you can't eat it. Gold is for moths who are attracted to shiny things. The future of value is in information and knowledge not metal. That's the ancient world. This is the Information Age. If you can't make advanced nanoscale devices and quantum computers, no monetary policy or _old standard will help you. This is the relentless way of evolution.