48 Facts About Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian-Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s.

Anatoly Chubais has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Anatoly Chubais fled to Israel in 2022 and subsequently obtained Israeli citizenship.

Anatoly Chubais was the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation from 2008 to 2020.

Anatoly Chubais resigned from this position in March 2022 and left Russia after opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to media reports.

Anatoly Chubais is the highest ranked Russian figure to have resigned due to the invasion.

Anatoly Chubais was a member of the Advisory Council for JPMorgan Chase from September 2008 until 2013.

Anatoly Chubais is a long-time participant and speaker of the Bilderberg Club.

Anatoly Chubais is currently an acting member of The Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Anatoly Chubais was born on 16 June 1955 in the town of Borisov, Belarus, which was then part of the Soviet Union, the son of Raisa Efimovna and Boris Matveyevich Anatoly Chubais.

In 1977, Anatoly Chubais graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics in present-day St Petersburg and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until 1991 when he left it.

In 1982, Anatoly Chubais was introduced to the future Prime Minister of Russia Yegor Gaidar, who was invited to and attended seminars led by Anatoly Chubais.

Anatoly Chubais strongly criticized the scheme at the time, citing the inevitable inequality and social tensions that would result if implemented as proposed.

Anatoly Chubais was trying to implement Sobchak's idea of creating a Free Economic Zone in Leningrad.

In 1991, Anatoly Chubais declined the offer to become the Chairman of the Leningrad Executive Committee to instead become an advisor to the mayoral administration in Leningrad where Sobchak had just been elected mayor.

In November 1991, Anatoly Chubais became a minister in the Yeltsin Cabinet where he managed the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo which was handling privatization in Russia.

Anatoly Chubais originally advocated rapid privatization in order to raise revenue, similar to the model used in Hungary.

From November 1994 until January 1996, Anatoly Chubais held the position of deputy prime minister for economic and financial policy in the Russian government.

Anatoly Chubais established the Civil Society Foundation as well as Yeltsin's Campaign Analytical Group, which became one part of the Foundation.

From July 1996 until March 1997, Anatoly Chubais was the chief of the Presidential Administration of Russia.

Anatoly Chubais participated in the Bilderberg Club session in Turnberry, Scotland in 1998, and co-chaired the Round Table of Industrialists of Russia and the EU during the joint session of the Government Commission of the Russian Federation and the European Union.

Anatoly Chubais was elected to the Board of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in 2000.

In 1998, Anatoly Chubais was elected to the chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia, the state-owned electricity monopoly, at a special general meeting of shareholders; he soon was appointed chairman of the board.

Since 2000, Anatoly Chubais consistently defended the need for further reform, which included dis-aggregating power generation, transmission, and distribution activities from the monopoly holding company in order to facilitate the subsequent sale of a majority of shares to private investors.

Anatoly Chubais was convinced that the un-bundling and privatization of the state monopoly were the only mechanisms able to raise the substantial funds needed to modernize Russia's electricity sector.

Anatoly Chubais was elected president of the CIS Electric Power Council, and later was repeatedly re-elected to that post from 2001 to 2004.

Anatoly Chubais's reforms helped eliminate the use of barter payments and significantly reduced the number of payment defaults in the sector.

Since September 2008, Anatoly Chubais has been General Manager of the State Corporation Rosnanotech.

Anatoly Chubais has been a member of the Skolkovo Foundation Council since 2010, and in 2011 was elected chairman of the board of LTD RUSNANO.

On 22 March 2022, after Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Anatoly Chubais quit his official positions, including that as special representative, stating that he was opposed to the invasion, according to media reports.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Anatoly Chubais had resigned, but did not specify why, stating: "Whether he left or not is his personal matter".

Anatoly Chubais left Russia, arriving in Istanbul, Turkey, on the same day, planning to remain abroad.

Alexei Navalny's spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, suggested that Anatoly Chubais had "left Russia only out of fear for his own skin and his own money".

Anatoly Chubais was the highest ranked Kremlin official to resign following the start of the invasion, though he is not a member of Putin's inner circle.

Anatoly Chubais is married to Dunya Smirnova and has two children from his first marriage: a son, Aleksey, and a daughter, Olga.

In June 1993, Anatoly Chubais co-founded the "Russia's Choice" electoral bloc, which was headed by Yegor Gaidar.

In December 1993, running under this bloc, Anatoly Chubais was elected as a deputy to the Russian State Duma in its first convocation.

In December 1998, Anatoly Chubais became a member of the Organizing Committee of Right Cause coalition and was elected to the Steering Committee of the Organizing Committee of this coalition.

In July 1996, Anatoly Chubais founded the "Center for Protection of Private Property" Foundation.

In May 2000, Anatoly Chubais was elected co-chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Russian National Political Organization "Union of Right Forces" at its founding congress.

Anatoly Chubais was later elected co-president and a member of the Federal Political Council on 26 May 2001, during the founding congress of the "Union of Right Forces" Party.

In May 2010, Anatoly Chubais became the chairman of the board of trustees of the Gaidar Foundation, jointly established by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy and Maria Strugatsky.

Representatives of Anatoly Chubais believed that unprecedented pressure was exerted by the defense on the jury.

In November 2023, Anatoly Chubais was added to Ukraine's sanctions list.

In December 2001, Anatoly Chubais was awarded an honorary diploma of International Award by the International Union of Economists for his significant contributions to the Russian Federation, specifically his work applying advanced international experience to introduce contemporary methods of organizing administration, economics, finances and production processes.

In 2008, Anatoly Chubais was awarded a Presidential Commendation for helping draft part of the Russian Constitution as well as his overall contributions to democracy in Russia.

In 2010, Anatoly Chubais was honored by with IV degree Order For Merit to the Fatherland "for outstanding contribution to the implementation of state policy in the field of nanotechnology and many years of favorable work".

Anatoly Chubais received three presidential commendations and as well as one honorary Ph.