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Show DIAMOND PRICES SOARING IN RUSSIA ODJfifJ&A, April 20 The price of diamonds is soarlnK so rapidly here' and in Moscow thai German Jewelers I who spent huge sums buying Up COl- lections from the Impoverished Kus-' slan nohllity are now hack In Russia selling their wares nt double the prices I they asked In Germany L The diamond market owes Its rise to the scramble of traders and merchants mer-chants to get rid of their ruble-. Never sure of the value paper money will have from day to day. they literally I invest bales of soviet currency In pr -clous stones. Good diamonds sull for about ?200 a carat and those of Inferior In-ferior quality bring from 2) to 180 a carat. The recent heavy trade in lhec stones has resulted in many ials dla- , monds heln? offered on the market. Levantine traders operating from Black sea ports are said to he responsible respon-sible for bringing thot Imitations to Russia. i |