According to reports on a Russian-language web site, in December 2022 Russia began issuing 5-ruble notes again after a long hiatus. The new notes are like the discontinued notes of 1997 (B816a), but with a new lacquer coating, and distinctive two-letter prefixes beginning with ч.
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Courtesy of Christof Zellweger and Anton Menshikov.