Anatoly Chubais
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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian-Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s.
Chubais in 2019
Protesters insist Chubais ("the redhead"; рыжего) must be imprisoned for the privatization process, April 1998. Chubais became known as "Redheaded Tolik" (Russian: рыжий Толик, lit. 'Little Anatole the Redhead').
Anatoly Chubais with Dmitry Medvedev and Xi Jinping, 28 September 2010
Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He lat
Anatoly Chubais
…Чубайс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian-Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing a market economy and the principles of private ownership…
Official portrait, 1992
Yeltsin (second from left) with his childhood friends in the 1940s
In 1976, Yeltsin was interviewed by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who decided that he was an appropriate choice to become First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk obkom.
Mikhail Gorbachev took office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985; he soon promoted Yeltsin to a job in Moscow.