Chubais (Anatoly)

Anatoly Chubais (born 1955) is a Russian political figure who played a key role in the privatization reforms under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. As an economic policy maker, he oversaw the controversial program of transitioning Russia's state-controlled economy to a market-based system through mass privatization of state assets. Critics accused him of overseeing corrupt privatization deals that made economic "oligarchs" wealthy at public expense. After Yeltsin resigned, Chubais continued serving in senior economic roles under Vladimir Putin until resigning in 2020. A polarizing figure, Chubais was both praised as an economic reformer by some and vilified by others who fault him for Russia's problematic transition to capitalism after the Soviet Union's collapse. After full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chubais left Russia, becoming the highest ranked Kremlin official to resign. [Claude AI]