Chubais Cross

Foreign media never tire of repeating that the personal ambitions of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are to blame for the story of turning off the gas valve, but the president of the Institute of Economic Analysis, Andrei Illarionov, noticed the hand of another politician in the “gas conflict” - Anatoly Chubais. NEWSru reports about this.

It was no coincidence that the book “Chubais’ Cross,” which tells the story of the closure of RAO UES, was published at the very height of the “gas conflict,” Illarionov believes, since it was Chubais who was the first to initiate the “shutdown” punishment.

“We were reminded who rightfully owns the patent for a foreign country disconnector from the supply of gas, energy, heat (insert as necessary) for the sake of achieving private interests,” Illarionov noted in his blog, commenting on an interview with journalist Mikhail Berger (author of the book “Chubais’ Cross”) on Radio Liberty.

As the economist noted, by privatizing RAO UES, seizing it from other shareholders, from the state and from private traders, Chubais became the founder of such concepts as “nashism” and “swizism”.

“That’s it - in a simple way, in our own way, in our way: the RAO UES company no longer belongs to the shareholders,” Illarionov sneers, “...Now it belongs to us.” This is our resource... Used uncontrollably and brazenly for private interests. Your own and your friends. This is a club that influences politics, governors, parties... This is Nashism. Ordinary Nashism.

Thus, the political scientist persists, the ex-head of the Unified Energy System is no different from Russian Prime Minister Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin or Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov, to whom Chubais is contrasted in the book as a “hero”.

However, the economist did find one difference. In his opinion, the ex-head of the EEC was the first to legalize gangster “power entrepreneurship” and began to act within the entire country and on behalf of the authorities.

- He's a teacher. All the rest are students. Diligent, it's true. But students, the political scientist concluded.