Igor Chubais
Igor Borisovich Chubais (Russian: И́горь Бори́сович Чуба́йс; born 26 April 1947, Berlin, Soviet occupation zone of Germany) is a Russian philosopher and sociologist, Doctor of Sciences, and the author of many scientific and journalistic works. He is an initiator of the introduction of the Russian education system a new subject Russian studies. He is the first dean of "Russian studies" department at the Institute of Social Sciences and the director of Inter-University center for Russian studies in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He is a board member of the Russian Writers Union.
Igor Chubais | |
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| Игорь Чубайс | |
| Born | 26 April 1947 Berlin, Soviet occupation zone of Germany |
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| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Region | Russia |
| Institutions | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia |
Main interests | Philosophy, Russian studies |
He is the older brother of Russian billionaire oligarch and politician Anatoly Chubais. The two have starkly different politics, and do not communicate with one another.
In 2010 he signed a petition of the opposition political advocacy campaign "Putin must go," and in September 2014 signed a statement demanding an end to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the Russian military support to separatists in Eastern Ukraine.
In the 2018 Russian presidential election, he was a confidant of Grigory Yavlinsky.