Putin’s advisor reportedly quits over opposition to Ukraine war

Anatoly Chubais, a senior advisor to Russian President, Vladimir Putin has quit his job as a Kremlin envoy to international organizations.

“Chubais has resigned at his own request,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

The 66-year-old Moscow insider’s resignation was reportedly linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine but Peskov said that it was a “personal” decision.

It was reported that Chubais was leaving Russia for Turkey.

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Chubais, long seen as a member of the Kremlin’s liberal camp and who also held the climate portfolio, took office as a special representative to international organizations in December 2020.

Decades earlier, under then-president Boris Yeltsin, Chubais was an architect of Russia’s post-Soviet transition to a market economy. (DPA/NAN)