1. Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, from April 2000 to December 2005.
32 Facts About Andrey Illarionov
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Andrey Illarionov has become a vocal critic of Putin and his administration since 2003 while he was still a Putin's adviser.
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Andrey Illarionov was born on 16 September 1961, in Sestroretsk, a municipal town of Saint Petersburg.
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Andrey Illarionov then went on to study economics at the Leningrad State University, graduating in 1983, and receiving a Ph.
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From 1983 to 1984, and again from 1988 to 1990 Andrey Illarionov taught for the International Economic Relations Department of Leningrad State University.
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From 1993 to 1994 Andrey Illarionov was the head of the Analysis and Planning Group of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Government of Russia, Viktor Chernomyrdin, after which he went on to become the vice-president of the Leontyev International Social and Economic Research Centre, and director of the Moscow division.
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Andrey Illarionov created the Institute for Economic Analysis and was its director from 1994 to 2000.
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Andrey Illarionov had predicted 1998 financial crisis and called for a devaluation of the Russian ruble in order to avoid the August 1998 financial meltdown.
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On 12 April 2000, Andrey Illarionov was invited by Vladimir Putin to be his senior economic adviser and in May 2000 he became the personal representative of the Russian president in the G8.
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Andrey Illarionov found that in 1992 the $1 billion IMF loan to Russia was used to prevent the default of the KGB- associated Eurobank in Paris, that Yegor Gaidar was behind the scam, and that Boris Fyodorov, who was the finance minister of Russia and a close associate of Illarionov, was not told of the scam.
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On 3 January 2005 Andrey Illarionov resigned from his position as presidential representative to the G8 because of the government troops' storm of the Beslan school on 3 September 2004 leading to death of 333 children, their parents and teachers.
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On 27 December 2005, Andrey Illarionov offered his resignation as economic adviser in protest against the stealing of billions of dollars by Putin's inner circle from the Russian state via the IPO of state-owned company Rosneft.
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In October 2006, the same week as Putin declared the Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya "abominable in its brutality", Andrey Illarionov took up a position with the Cato Institute.
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On 14 April 2007, and 9 June 2007, Andrey Illarionov took part in opposition Dissenters' Marches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, respectively.
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Andrey Illarionov is one of the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published on 10 March 2010.
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In 2012 Andrey Illarionov wrote a book chapter entitled "A Few Theses on the Theory of Freedom and on Creating an Index of Freedom" for the Fraser Institute.
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Andrey Illarionov's work was developed into the Index of Freedom in the World, and later the annual Human Freedom Index.
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In January 2015 Andrey Illarionov clashed with Mikhail Khodorkovsky over the 2014 Annexation of Crimea.
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In March 2016 Andrey Illarionov was frustrated at the label of Russia by dissidents as a "hybrid regime".
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In January 2018 Andrey Illarionov was listed with others as an advisor to the US Treasury on the regime of sanctions over Crimea.
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Andrey Illarionov, who was an advisor to Boris Yeltsin as well as to Putin, says that "Putin is an outstanding politician, and he carried out a very successful operation to win the trust of the" tightly-knit group of men that then surrounded power in Russia in that era.
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In 2004 Andrey Illarionov likened the Kyoto Protocol to a "concentration camp for the world economy", the Soviet-era GULag forced penal labour camps, and called the Protocol "an international Auschwitz for economic growth".
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Andrey Illarionov has provided evidence that the war was launched by the Russian leadership that started aggression against Georgia on 6 August 2008 by bringing its military into South Ossetia and escalating the situation before the Georgian side was forced to respond in the night of 8 August.
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Andrey Illarionov has stated that Moscow's intervention into Georgia scared away investors and was in part responsible for the 2008 Russian financial crisis.
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Andrey Illarionov has criticized the Russian government attacks on private sector in summer of 2008 that contributed to financial crisis.
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In 2010 Andrey Illarionov criticised the official Russian investigation about the Smolensk air disaster and called the official version "naive".
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On 4 February 2014, before the Russian intervention in Crimea, Andrey Illarionov predicted that Vladimir Putin was going to implement a military operation to effectively establish political control over Ukraine.
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In November 2018, Andrey Illarionov said in the chat of the Ukrainian portal GlavRed that the dissolution of Russian Federation is inevitable which is a natural process for multinational empires.
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On 1st February 2022, Andrey Illarionov said that "Biden saves ratings with myths about "Russian Armed Forces' invasion" of Ukraine".
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In June 2024 Andrey Illarionov was interviewed by the Kyiv Post.
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Andrey Illarionov proposed that the beginning of Putin's Ukrainian campaign occurred on 17 September 2003.
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Andrey Illarionov repeated this claim, which was made by him as early as summer 2014.