Bank of Russia President Elvira Nabiullina will participate in a press conference on June 19 following the Governing Council meeting on monetary policy. About this I mentioned Press service of the Central Bank.
Nabiulina has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks. On June 4, she missed the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), on June 9, the conference of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR), and on June 10, a meeting with Vladimir Putin, where inflation and the key interest rate were discussed.
The press service of the Central Bank said that Nabiullina missed these events because she was on sick leave. Russian President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that Nabiullina’s absence should not be a reason for “some conspiracy theories”: “Sometimes people get sick, and there is nothing special about that.”
Elvira Nabiullina’s absence from the public sphere is being discussed in connection with her possible resignation. She is completing her third term as head of the central bank, which by law must be her last. Her term will end in a year, in June 2027. According to The Bell newspaper, the candidates for the position of head of the Central Bank are Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Maxim Oreshkin, Promsviyazbank President Pyotr Fradkov and VTB President Andrei Kostin.