Putin Delivers Surprise to Propagandists Who Attacked Nabiullina

Russia’s central bank and its governor, Elvira Nabiullina, have spent months, and even years, as favorite targets of the country’s propaganda machine. The attacks have portrayed the bank as suffocating the economy.

One of the most prominent propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, has also assigned the bank responsibility for failures at the front. But President Vladimir Putin’s latest remarks offered an unexpected twist: they showed that his position and the propaganda machine’s narrative have begun to diverge.