Reports: Top Putin advisor quits, flees Russia Russian envoy Anatoly Borisovich Chubais in 2008. (Mitya Aleshkovsky/Wikimedia Commons) | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 22, 2022. (Kremlin/Released)
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A top advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin has quit his post at the Kremlin and fled Russia due to his nation’s invasion of Ukraine, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Anatoly Chubais, a Kremlin special envoy who previously served as chief of staff to former President Boris Yeltsin, does not plan to return to Russia because of the conflict in Ukraine, one source said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Chubais has resigned his position. A Retuers reporter reached Chubais by phone, but the former Putin advisor immediately hung up.
Chubais was also part of a small group of economists who worked under Yegor Gaidar to make permanent Russia’s post-Soviet Union transition that pushed tens of millions of citizens into poverty.
