Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, has improved her ranking from 72nd in 2014 to 71st this year in the Forbes' list of the most powerful women of 2015.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was ranked first, she is followed by Hillary Clinton, wife of a US ex-president and a candidate for president of the Democratic Party fielded for the 2016 polls, Melinda Gates, the wife of Bill Gates and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.