Sergei Dubinin, the central bank governor, whose mishandling of interest rates has helped drive the rouble down?

ECONOMIST: Russia sounds the alarm

Even reformers in the government think printing roubles is inevitable, whoever replaces the central bank's chairman, Sergei Dubinin, who resigned this week.

ECONOMIST: Russia shipwrecked

Some western financiers in Moscow dream of Mr Kiriyenko being replaced as prime minister by the central-bank governor, Sergei Dubinin, though he is equally likely to be sacked.

ECONOMIST: Russia��s nightmare