Gender of "Euro" in Russian

[Jerry Ervin]

According to a new dictionary of Russian orthography to be issued this
year, it's been decided that the "Euro" will be a masculine noun in
Russian--but it will not decline.  Vladimir Lopatin, doctor of philology at
the Vinogradov Institute, said the masculine gender is interpreted by
native Russian speakers as "more weighty," therefore it is prefereable to
use "Euro" in the masculine [Russian Life, April/May 1999].