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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov confirmed to RIA Novosti that Putin’s adviser and architect of economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia had resigned, adding that he had done so on his own initiative.
Earlier in the day, a source told Reuters that Chubais had resigned and was the most prominent high-ranking official in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.
Chubais was promoted to the position in 2020 due to “success in terms of sustainable development goals”, a few days after resigning from the position of head of the state technology company RUSNANO, which he has managed since 2008.
A Reuters source did not say why he left the country. When a Reuters reporter asked him by phone to comment on his decision, he hung up.
Many Russians had criticized Chubais for allowing a small group of tycoons to get rich through privatizations in the 1990s, when millions of Russians were impoverished amid economic collapse and crisis.
In recent years he has continued to call for reform and has been one of the most prominent liberal politicians working with the Russian government.
In 2010 he had warned that the rise of fascism was the only major threat that could dismantle the country.
Source: Capital
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