Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Borisovich Chubaisis a Russian politician and businessman 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 market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 June 1955
CountryRussian Federation
team cities government
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
thinking russia way
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
cities government joining
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
use way get-money
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
europe community western
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
should-have young scholar
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
russia people microsoft
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
government training special
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
kind instruments
Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
needs language kind
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
able
You're not always able to choose.
long fundamentals institutions
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
mean experts accepted
If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
russia political unions
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.