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Chubais, Anatoly Borisovich
(b. 1955), reform economist and official in Yeltsin government.
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais was born in 1955.
In this interview excerpt, Adrien Meisch, Luxembourg Ambassador to Moscow from to , describes the political and economic situation in Russia after the.
In 1977 he graduated from an engineering-economic institute in Leningrad, and in 1983 he defended a thesis on management problems. His early career was linked to the democratic movement in Leningrad. Following the failed coup in August 1991 (against Mikhail Gorbachev), he resigned his membership in the Communist Party.
As one of the most prominent of Russia's "young reform economists," in November 1991 he was appointed to serve as chairman of the Russian State Property Committee.
From that post he would lead and influence the Russian program of mass privatization, personally favoring the use of special privatization vouchers and privatization via auctions. In 1993 he was also elected to the Russian Duma, representing the liberal party Russia's Choice.
Following a series of scandals in relation to various privatization deals, in January 1996 Ch