Chubais resigned as special presidential envoy and left Russia - Bloomberg

Anatoly Chubais resigned from the post of special presidential representative for sustainable development and left the country, Bloomberg writes , citing two sources. TASS source also confirms information about Chubais leaving office.

According to Bloomberg sources, Chubais “cited his disagreement” with the “military operation” in Ukraine. As the publication notes, he became the highest-ranking official to resign after the outbreak of hostilities.

Chubais's representative did not comment on this information to The Bell. Forbes managed to reach Chubais by phone, but when asked whether he really left Russia, he did not answer and hung up. “I can’t say, I don’t know,” his brother Igor Chubais said in a conversation with RBC.

Update

Representatives of Chubais confirmed that he is leaving the post of special presidential representative for sustainable development. Kommersant reports that Chubais was seen in Istanbul yesterday.

• A few days ago, on March 19, Chubais wrote a post on Facebook for the 66th anniversary of the author of Russian economic reforms of the 90s, Yegor Gaidar, who died in 2009. “In our disputes about the future of Russia, I did not always agree with him. But it seems that Gaidar understood the strategic risks better than I did, and I was wrong,” Chubais said in the message.
• Chubais in 2003 called the construction of a “liberal empire” the main task of Russia. Gaidar, the author of a book about the collapse of the USSR, “The Death of an Empire,” warned in his articles about the danger of post-imperial nostalgia. “Trying to make Russia an empire again means calling into question its very existence,” Gaidar wrote in an article in Kommersant in 2006.