Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina outside Moscow, Russia October 27, 2017.
The Kremlin's top brass are trying to pass the buck over the ruble's collapse. This rare public infighting shows just how precarious Russia's wartime economy is.
  • The Kremlin's top brass are trying to pass the buck over the ruble's collapse.
  • President Putin's chief economic adviser has blamed the weak ruble on the central bank's policies.
  • Russia's central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said the weak ruble is due to changing trade flows.

Russia's economy is in such a mess that the country's top officials appear to be pitted against one another in public.