Anatoly Chubais, an adviser to Vladimir Putin, the architect of economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia, has resigned from his position in the Kremlin as special envoy and left the country, a source told Reuters, an act that makes him the most high-profile high-profile person to protest the invasion of Ukraine.
Chubais, who once served as former President Boris Yeltsin's chief of staff, resigned as Vladimir Putin's special representative for relations with international organizations, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
He was placed in the post in 2020 due to "successes regarding sustainable development goals," days after resigning as head of state-owned technology company RUSNANO, which he had run since 2008.
The source did not give the reasons for his departure. When a Reuters reporter asked him by phone to comment on his decision, he hung up.
Many Russians had criticized Chubais for enabling a small group of tycoons to get rich through privatization in the 1990s, at a time when millions of Russians were impoverished amid the economic collapse and crisis.
In recent years he continued to make calls for reform and was one of the most prominent liberal politicians working with the Russian government.
In 2010 he warned that the rise of fascism was the single biggest threat that could tear the country apart.
Source: protothema.gr
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