Putin's pressure on Russia's central bank breaks decades of hands-off policy

By Ben Aris in Berlin August 7, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken with decades of near-total silence on monetary policy, twice publicly signalling in July that the key interest rate should be lower, in unusually direct ...


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