The Russian Central Bank is like legacy financiers everywhere, they don't understand or see the value of crypto.
But Putin is a canny operator. We use crypto to build towards an alternative where governments and banks can't just take our money on a whim. He's probably thinking along the same lines, of building up his crypto knowledge and reserves ready for the day the US tries to push Russia out of the SWIFT system.
There is logic to your comment colleague, Putin probably thinks in the way you describe.
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