"Euro" in Russian

[Laura Kline]

There was recently an article on this very question in JRL. Here is the
relevant excerpt:

Dollar-loving Russians careful of new euro
By Peter Henderson

MOSCOW, Jan 5 (Reuters) - It is still difficult to talk about the ``yevro'' in
Russian.
  One television commentator said it was unclear which end of the word the
stress should be on while linguists have not agreed whether the sexy new
currency has any sex at all.
  ``It has no gender,'' said a spokesman for the Moscow Interbank Currency
Exchange, when asked which of Russian's three genders -- masculine, feminine
or neuter -- the euro was.
  The general consensus among EU languages like German and French is that the
euro is a boy -- it is ``der euro'' and ``un euro'' but in its Russian
incarnation the ``yevro'' looks like a neuter word because it ends in ``o.''
  Baffled local media seem to have decided it is definitely not neuter but
swing both ways on the other two genders.
  ``For now the best thing is to avoid using gender,'' advised Vladimir
Slavkin, a senior lecturer in Russian language at the prestigious Moscow State
University.