The dark at the end of Russia's tunnel

Putin and Nabiullina are in trouble — we must not take their propaganda at face value

After Foreign Policy ran my new article about Russia’s Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina, a friend passed on an alleged insider document outlining why Russia’s economy didn’t contract as quickly as we thought it might — and why it will contract anyway.

I’m not going to quote the document directly since I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to read it (he…