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The Kremlin also has its evening visitors.
It is more precisely to Novo-Ogaryovo, the presidential residence near Moscow, that the few personalities still having access to Vladimir Putin go.
Among these privileged ones, one counted until recently Herman Gref, old ally of the head of state and president of Sberbank, the main bank of the country (recently renamed Sber), and Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of the central bank of Russia.
A month before the start of the
"special military operation"
in Ukraine, these two leading economic personalities went to meet Putin in his large ultra-secure house surrounded by birch trees, to try to dissuade him from going to war.
During this interview, described by the
Financial Times , Gref presented the president with a 39-page report detailing the consequences of the
"tough"
Western economic sanctions
that would inevitably hit the country in the event of an offensive against Ukraine.
Mrs. Nabioullina…
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