How much would a (Russian) newspaper have cost during WWI?

Here is a reproduction of the (British) Daily Mirror from April 16, 1912, which shows that it cost one halfpenny. (The paper was announcing the sinking of Titanic.)

This would probably be the most accurate way to answer your question: look for images of the paper online for the dates in question. So many newspapers have archive copies online these days that it shouldn’t be a big problem.

This Google search was for “new york times headlines 1900” and this (even though it’s not the NYT or 1900) was one of the first images to show what I wanted.

Good luck.

It would have likely been a few kopecs. A ruble would have been way too much to spend on a newspaper, even with the runaway inflation of the time.

My dad says 1 kopek in the 60s, so likely the same or less (don’t really know how it could be less though)

@Laina it could be less if Russia “remonetized” as most countries eventually do when they face runaway inflation and people laugh at the currency. Someday bread in Zimbabwe won’t cost trillions of Zimbabwe dollars like it does now.