How does this move the labor market graph? When investors sensed trouble and stopped investing in the Russian market, a domino effect ensued. Initially, the prices of Russian company stocks and securities sharply declined, triggering panic in financial institutions. Russian banks faced demands for the early repayment of foreign loans. They began to buy foreign currency on the market in large quantities to settle these obligations. Investors dumping government bonds also rushed for foreign currency to convert their proceeds and move them abroad. In May, the capital outflow reached half a billion dollars per week, and it further intensified