Russian Central Bank says Russia needs sources of capital At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, is "very strongly supportive of the macroeconomic policy that you [Russia] are contemplating", while Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia, says [Russia's] "problem of financing economic growth, is not a problem of credit deficit, it is a problem of investment scarcity". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES