Possible Clues:

• Country vehicle conveying drunken earl
• Country whose currency, RUBLES, is almost an anagram of its name
• From the start, roubles usable all round here
• Land ball at the back, stand to welcome American
• Country carnivore eats student, American
• European state
• A ruble's minted here
• Country once known as Byelorussia
• Neighbor of Lithuania
• Certain British back besieging the French country