In charge of the climate, this former deputy prime minister left the country after warning against the dangers of an “imperial nostalgia”.
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Anatoli Tchoubaïs is in Istanbul. It has been seen, and photographed, cap on the skull, in front of a Turkish megapole ticket distributor. Has the Russian manager, like tens of thousands of his fellow citizens have fled Russia, liquidity problems, linked to the blocking Visa and Mastercard Russian maps abroad?
The departure of this iconic personality of the 1990s and 2000 was announced, Wednesday, March 23, by the Bloomberg agency, and then officially confirmed. Before leaving the country with his wife, perhaps temporarily, Mr. Tchoubaïs, 66, had indicated to resign from his post of Special Representative of the President to the international organizations, in particular in particular the climate.
The wingspan of Anatoli Tchoubaïs exceeds this title since 2020. This former deputy prime minister is one of the most important politicians of the 1990s, and his name remains associated with massive privatization and Russia’s “shock therapy” during this period. It is also he who brought Vladimir Putin to Moscow, in the mid-1990s, before supervising the transition between Boris Elsin and the latter at the end of the decade.
Anatoli Tchoubaïs then showed a complete loyalty to the new president, putting his image as a good complexion liberal at his service. In particular, he directed large public groups in the energy and technology sector. Like all members of the liberal elite, its influence in the Kremlin had gradually faded.
The dangers of the “Imperial Nostalgia”
In this world at Byzantine operation of the Russian state summit, its resignation can not be interpreted otherwise than a defection. Vladimir Putin has sufficiently attached to display the unity of the elite, bringing around his various components around him. The Special Representative had also suggested his opposition to “the special operation” conducted in Ukraine by publishing on social networks a week ago, a warning on the dangers of “imperial nostalgia”.
His gesture has been poorly publicized, and treated with some disdain. Several officials spoke of a “good news”, while a counselor of Vladimir Putin Ironized: “I do not think it influences the climate agenda of Russia.” A few days ago, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, had assimilated those who go to “traitors” in line with Mr. Putin’s speech on the “fifth column”. These positions are all the easier than Anatoli Tchoubaïs, associated with the painful reforms of the 1990s, is an unpopular character in Russia.
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