Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Chubais, a Russian government insider for decades, is leaving his job as President Vladimir Putin's special representative on the environment, ...

In the early days of Putin's rise to power, Chubais was considered an opponent by the now-president. Putin claimed in a series of interviews in 1999 that Chubais canceled the Kremlin job that he was initially offered. Chubais did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

A prominent adviser to Vladimir Putin has resigned from the government and reportedly left Russia in the highest-ranking defection yet over the Kremlin's ...

Very few current or former Kremlin officials have spoken out against the war. “In our arguments about Russia’s future I didn’t always agree with him,” Chubais wrote. Chubais was allegedly sighted in Istanbul as early as last week.

Anatoly Chubais, one of the economic reformers in the years after the Soviet Union and author of Russia's unpopular privatization program, ...

“In our discussions about the future of Russia, I did not always agree with him. Chubais was unpopular in Russia for his role in helping push through the notorious “loans-for-shares” privatization deal in the mid-1990s, which spawned Russia’s class of ultrarich oligarchs. But whether he left or did not leave, that’s his business,” Peskov told the Interfax news agency. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Chubais had resigned but did not confirm he had left the country. Last week, Chubais, 66, posted an oblique post on Facebook to commemorate Gaidar’s death in 2009. But his departure underscores the alarm felt by many in Russia’s comfortable urban classes at Putin’s war and his mounting witch-hunt for traitors and “fifth columnists.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirms Chubais's resignation, says he left of his own accord. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with head of state-owned ...

He was one of the most prominent Russians of the chaotic immediate post-Soviet era. When trouble loomed, it was often Chubais who post-Soviet Russia turned to. As Putin began his rise to power by moving to Moscow, Chubais cancelled the job in the Kremlin that Putin had been offered, Putin said in a series of interviews in 1999.