(for naive, patriotic reasons, but thats only IMHO)
Knit Tie pretty much admitted himself he only support Russia because it's his country.
And for other reasons as well, most prominently the criminal conduct of the ATO by the Ukrainian forces and Kyiv's promotion of many prominent right ultraradicals and outright Neo-Nazis into positions of power within the government and a very totalitarian way of ruling in general, especially in regards to the media. I also equate the annexation of Crimea with the Euromaidan when it comes to the general morality - both events broke the international law, both represented the desires of and were overwhelmingly supported and hailed by the local people nevertheless - and would like to state that the ATO has only brought devastation and death to the separatist regions of the Ukraine, the Novorossiya, while the mainland loyalist Ukraine remains safe, and thus the amount of suffering that the rest of Ukraine has brought upon the rebels and the amount of suffering that the rebels have brought upon the rest of Ukraine are in no way equal.
I may disagree with your opinion, but that does not mean that I am any less rational than you are.
@Erkki: I would like to point out again that the proportion of reasonable articles written pro-Russia approximately equals that of reasonable articles written anti-Russia - both sides churn out shameless propaganda in absurd quantities, although Russia is losing the propaganda war badly due it its PR department being overall inferior to that of the Washington (sorry, smjjames, you are right, I will use the term "Washington" instead of "west" from now on). I also would like to point out that just because you have picked a side that you believe to be right, it does not necessarily mean that your side is objectively right either, i.e. everything you said about me applies to you in equal measure.
Kinda figured the CBR decided to spend all their cash to prop up the ruble. This will last about two weeks then right back to 80. If they spend much more of those reserves then gold is the only part left.
Russia's antidepreciation measures do not amount solely to spending rubles, I linked a post about that some time before. And FearfulJesuit is right - Russia has massive foreign reserves, especially when you consider that it also has a very small debt and a budget surplus.