Some signs of slowing down around the Russian President Wladimir Putin begins to see himself in the Kremlin. The sanctions are taking effect, and perhaps some highranking representatives of Putin’s entourage are beginning to sense danger. In the last few hours, he has fled in parallel with a severe Anonymous attack on the Russian central bank Anatoly Chubaisloyal to the president and the governor of the same central bank, Elvira Nabiullinatried to resign refused after heavily criticizing the war election.
The Escape from Chubais
Anatoly Chubais is formally the President’s special climate envoy and adviser, but beyond the institutional role he is an oligarch who ranks among the wealthiest, most powerful and those closest to the President. It was Chubais who offered the same former KGB agent his first post in the Kremlin after the Yeltsin era. Chubais fled to Turkey in the last few hours, and there it will stay. He is the highest Russian official to have turned his back on the “Tsar” of Moscow.
The case of Nabiullina
In the same hours, the news of repeated attempts to resign the governor of the Central Bank of Russia broke in the media. Elvira Nabiullina, which vehemently attacked Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, accusing him of “thrown the Russian economy into the abyss”. According to Bloomberg, Nabiullina submitted her resignation three times, but the Kremlin rejected her and even tried to keep her in the chair for another five years.
The anonymous attack
Regarding the Central Bank of Russia, the institute has accused a serious, informed collective attack Anonymous (behind which, to be fair, elements of Western intelligence are also likely to operate). After a series of impressive media demonstrations, Anonymous hacked the bank. “More than 35,000 files containing secret agreements will be released within 48 hours,” the activists wrote on Twitter.
Should the attack be confirmed by the actual publication of the documents in the next few hours, as announced, we would certainly be facing one of the most important leaks published by Anonymous since the beginning #OpRussia, the campaign hackers used to target President Putin and all Moscow institutions. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Russia denies the attack, Tass reports.