The Russian President is trying to suggest that the country's rising inflation rate is the fault of its Central Bank, and its Chair Elvira Nabiullina, experts at the Institute for the Study of War ...

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said state assets would be privatized this year in a plan worth $1.2 billion.

And chief among them is what to do with the immobilized Russian Central Bank assets, the lion’s share of which are denominated in euros and thus held in EU-domiciled banks. To date, Europe’s political ...