Russia: Anatoly Chubais resigned as Kremlin adviser and left the country

Anatoly Chubais alongside Vladimir Putin in September 2010. ASSOCIATED PRESS - Alexei Nikolsky

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He is a famous and divisive figure who has just left the circles around the Kremlin.

Artisan of the reforms of the 90s, of those who set foot in the stirrup of Vladimir Putin, Anatoli Chubais resigned on Wednesday from his post as special envoy of the president to international organizations and undoubtedly left the country.

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With our correspondent in Moscow,

A silhouette with a raised collar, his face devoured by a cap, leaning over an ATM somewhere in Istanbul, this is the end of Anatoli Chubais' career.

In any case, this is what the Kommersant newspaper suggests, which published the photo of this former heavyweight in Russian politics.

The other cliché that circulates a lot dates from almost 30 years ago.

The already influential young Chubais alongside a gaunt-faced stranger named Vladimir Putin.

Former Minister of Finance and head of the presidential administration under Boris Yeltsin, the star of post-Soviet privatizations is one of those who put the foot in the stirrup to the current president.

He was until Wednesday still one of the pieces of the Kremlin system, but a figure hated by all those for whom the 90s are the symbol of wild liberalism and the flight of the oligarchs.

In a country where gas and oil are an essential windfall, Anatoli Chubais has also been in charge of talking about sustainable development in recent years.

Nothing has filtered on the reasons for his departure.

The Kremlin spokesman contented himself with a laconic “

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