Chubais resigned and invaded Russia
Anatoly Chubais has resigned as the president’s special envoy for security and left Russia, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. Later, Chubais’s resignation was confirmed by a Kremlin spokesman, Kommersant published a photo from Istanbul.
Edition argued for two people who know people. According to them, Chubais resigned and left the country, agreeing to disagree with President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The agency draws attention to the fact that Chubais, if this information is confirmed, will demand the highest level, broken with the Kremlin because of the invasion. The fact that Chubais left his post as the Kremlin’s special representative and left the country in protest, reported Also a Reuters source.
“Yes, it’s true. Anatoly Borisovich allows this post,” – declared TASS source from Chubais’ entourage. Another source close to Chubais also told the agency that he had left Russia: “He both resigned as special envoy and left the country.” “I can’t say, I don’t know” said said RBC his brother Igor Chubais in response to a question about the resignation and departure from Russia Anatoly Chubais.
Later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pesk responded to Interfax as follows: “Yes, Chubais resigned of his own free will. But he left – he didn’t leave – this is his own business.”
Two acquaintances of Chubais told RBC that he and his wife Avdotya Smirnova went to Istanbul (her friend also confirmed that she was in Istanbul). According to one of them, Chubais “was going to return” to Russia. And “Kommersant” published with the caption “Anatoly Chubais in Istanbul.”
He himself does not comment on the situation. Forbes journalists managed to get through to him by phone. Hearing the question whether he really left Russia, he did not answer and hung up, writes release. He also answered a call from a Reuters correspondent.
Chubais, like other members of the Russian elite, does not publicly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The exception was the former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who is now captured by FIDE. In a figurative form, billionaire Mikhail Fridman also expresses his disagreement.
A veiled disagreement with the war could be seen in a post by Chubais published on March 19, the birthday of his colleague Yegor Gaidar.
“In our disputes about the future of Russia, I never coincided. I was recognized in Russia as extremist and banned).
Bloomberg created Chubais as the architect of Russian privatization and reminders that it was Chubais who gave Putin his first position in the Kremlin in the mid-1990s and later welcomed him to power.
Chubais, 66, is one of the would-be economic reformers of the 1990s who remained in Putin’s government and maintains close ties to Western officials. Under Putin, he holds senior positions in large state-owned companies – RAO “UES of Russia” and “Rosnano”, until in December 2020 in Russia he was unexpectedly appointed as a researcher by his special representative for relations with the organization to achieve the development of regional development.
The day before, Chubais, speaking online at the IX Congress of Nanoindustry Enterprises, announced that he was being excluded from the state corporation Rosnano, which had been suppressed for 12 years.
Political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky, in an interview with the BBC, then drew attention to the “political symbolic group” of Chubais, “which was transferred, which the Alliance of the Liberal Environment with the Kremlin recognized.”
In 1991-1994, Chubais surrounded the State Committee for State Property Management, later combining this post with the post of Deputy Prime Minister, in 1996-1997 he headed the presidential administration, in 1997-1998 he was First Deputy Prime Minister, in 1998 he headed RAO UES Russia”. “, and in 2008 – “Rosnano”. On December 3, 2020, he left the group and was appointed special representative of the president for relations using organizations to achieve international development goals.
Bloomberg recalls that after February 24, pressure increased in Russia to accelerate the invasion.
On March 16, Putin spoke suspiciously at a meeting about the “self-purification of society” and branded the “fifth column” as traitors.
In Russia, new criminal and administrative articles for “military fakes” have begun to operate, which are dangerous for critics of the war and the coverage of anti-war actions.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was unable to comment promptly to the agency.
Dvorkovich made the decision to leave the post of chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation after a hard attack by United Russia with his anti-war position.
The Kommersant newspaper wrote that Mikhail Poluboyarinov, director general of Aeroflot, who fell under the EU court, also left his post in Russia. In the airline itself, this is a denial. However, Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev called Poluboyarinov the former general director of Aeroflot, stressing that he “is in Moscow”, “did not go anywhere” and “will work in one of the Russian deputy companies.”