Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (Russian Анатолий Борисович Чубайс, scientific transliteration Anatoly Borisovic Čubajs; born June 16, 1955 in Borisov, Minsk Woblasz, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, now in Belarus ) is a Russian politician and businessman.
Life
Chubais, the son of a political officer in the Soviet army, joined the Communist Party in 1977 and graduated from the Leningrad Economic Engineering Institute (now St. Petersburg State Engineering University of Economics ) with a degree. He worked there until 1982 as an engineer and assistant and from 1983 to 1990 as a lecturer. In 1983 he obtained his doctorate. From 1984 to 1987 he was the head of the informal group " Young Economists ", which was formed by a group of graduates of economic universities of Leningrad, and later emerged from the many leading reformers and entrepreneurs. 1987 Chubais was one of the founders of the Leningrad group " perestroika ", the aim of which was to spread democratic values among the intelligentsia. He was responsible for the economic reforms in Leningrad in 1989 and brought in that capacity many reformers in the city to make Leningrad become a model for economic reform. As of 1991, Chubais was considered one of the reformer Anatoly Sobchak, who was elected this year as mayor of Leningrad 's closest collaborators.
In November 1991, he was Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for the management of state assets. In 1992, Chubais Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Yegor Gaidar and November 1994 to January 1996 First Vice - Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin. He was discharged in the population of Boris Yeltsin due to the large unpopularity of economic reforms. Nevertheless Chubais headed the 1996 presidential campaign for Yeltsin. After Yeltsin's electoral victory, he headed the presidential administration and was thus virtually become the second most powerful man in the state. In this period, far-reaching privatizations were carried out, rise through the some Russian financiers to super-rich oligarchs. Finally, in 1997 plunged Chubais as finance minister over a financial scandal, but retained his post as deputy prime minister until 1998. 1993 and the end of the 1990s he was a candidate of the party Choice of Russia ( Выбор России ) elected to the Duma.
Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov and Chubais were called Young reformers and are associated with the shock therapy privatization (see also voucher privatization ), and the very controversial loans - for - shares privatizations, as well as the rise of the oligarchs.
Between April 1998 and June 2008, he was chairman of the now defunct parastatal, Russian electricity company RAO UES ( РАО " ЕЭС России "). He had been target of five attacks, the last time on 17 March 2005 when driving from his Moscow home to work.