Anatoly Chubais, a senior advisor to Russian President, Vladimir Putin has quit his job as a Kremlin envoy to international organisations.
“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.
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It was reported that the ex-envoy was leaving Russia for Turkey.
Chubais, long seen as a member of the Kremlin’s liberal camp and who also held the climate portfolio, took office as special representative to international organisations 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)
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