Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian politician best known for his role in Russian privatization and the creation of oligarchs. Most recently, Mr Chubais served as one of the co-leaders of the Union of Right Forces, which controlled 29 seats in the Russian Parliament from 1999 until 2003. He is currently the head of political party Union of Right Forces, CEO of Unified Energy System.

In 1977, he graduated from the Leningrad Economic Engineering Institute. Mr Chubais remained a member of the communist party till the early 1990s. He was an advisor to Anatoly Sobchak's Mayoral Administration in St Petersburg for about a year, from 1991-1992. From November 1994 through January 1996 he was First Vice-Premier — in charge of economy and finance — in the Government of Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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