PORTRAIT. Elvira Nabioellina, Putin’s main soldier

No one in Russia helped make war possible more than Elvira Nabioellina. The national bank president was admired even in the West for the way she guided her country through sanctions. But the invasion of Ukraine became too much for her. She asked to resign, but Putin had to stay. Since then she always appears in mourning colors and without a brooch, the accessory with which she gave the world sneaky signs for years.

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