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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais - Chairman of the Board of RAO "UES of Russia", Actual State Advisor, 1st Class.

Born on June 16, 1955 in the city of Borisov, Minsk region. Graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. P. Tolyatti (LIEI) in 1977, Candidate of Economic Sciences. Worked as an engineer, assistant, in 1982-1990. - Associate Professor LIEI. In 1990-1991 - Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee.

Since November 1991 - Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management with the rank of Minister of the Russian Federation.

Since June 1992 - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, since November 1994 - First Deputy Chairman of the Government, Head of the Federal Commission for Securities and the Stock Market under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Released from his duties as First Deputy Prime Minister in January 1996.

From February to July 1996 - President of the Foundation for the Protection of Private Property.

On July 15, 1996, he was appointed head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. On March 7, 1997, he was relieved of his post and reappointed as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and also took up the post of Minister of Finance.

He was relieved of his post as Minister of Finance in the fall of 1997, remaining Deputy Prime Minister.

He was a member of the Defense Council and the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the first convocation on the list of the “Choice of Russia” bloc, and was a member of the Committee on Property, Privatization and Economic Activities.

In 1994, a conflict between Anatoly Chubais and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov began. Disagreements arose due to different approaches by the mayor of Moscow and the first deputy prime minister to the problem of privatization. Anatoly Chubais believed that it was necessary to privatize all state property. Yuri Luzhkov believed that part of the property should remain under the jurisdiction of municipal authorities, and the other part should be sold gradually on an individual basis.

The conflict between Chubais and Luzhkov also developed over the problem of providing Moscow with food. On May 27, 1995, Anatoly Chubais, speaking at an extended meeting of the Presidential Public Chamber, said that due to the “close connection of the Moscow authorities with those involved in importing products,” the Moscow market is closed to agricultural producers in the central and northwestern regions of Russia. “The connection between food importers and the Moscow authorities is too close,” Chubais emphasized. In this regard, Chubais spoke in favor of increasing import tariffs on food. In turn, the Moscow mayor's office accused Chubais of either deliberate misinformation or ignorance of fundamental information about the state of the Russian economy. The mayor stated that the possibilities for wholesale food supplies from the regions of Central Russia are extremely limited, since almost all food is produced for domestic consumption.

On December 24, 1994, by government decree, Anatoly Chubais was appointed chairman of the Federal Energy Commission.

In March 1995, Chubais prepared a draft and initiated the adoption of a decree abolishing benefits and privileges for 59 regions, industries and enterprises. In the fall of 1995, Anatoly Chubais publicly refused to participate in the election campaign, saying that his work in the government did not leave him free time to prepare for election to the State Duma of the 6th convocation.

On January 5, 1995, Chubais was appointed chairman of the federal organizing committee of the Nizhny Novgorod All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition.

On January 10, 1995, he was appointed chairman of the interdepartmental commission on socio-economic problems of coal regions. As part of the work of this commission, on January 15, 1996, Chubais met with the head of the administration of the Kemerovo region, Mikhail Kislyuk, representatives of trade unions and directors of coal mining enterprises in the region. At the meeting, issues of social support for miners who are laid off as a result of enterprise closures were discussed. Instead of the 400 billion rubles previously promised to Kuzbass, Anatoly Chubais promised to allocate 100 billion with transfers in January (25%) and February (75%).

Not satisfied with this decision, Governor Mikhail Kislyuk announced that he intended to picket the White House together with the miners.

On April 22, 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed Anatoly Chubais as Russia's governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

In the Russian government, Anatoly Chubais headed the commission on non-payments. The secretary of the commission, Mstislav Afanasyev, formulated the commission’s position on the issue of repaying debts to the government of the Russian Federation as follows: “Tightening monetary policy actually leads to a reduction in non-payments.” According to the economic observer of the Segodnya newspaper, Alexander Bekker, Chubais “shaked out” trillions of debts from the Ministry of Railways, but “saved” before the head of the oil company LUKoil, Vagit Alekperov, who returned 1 trillion rubles to the budget. arrears by selling, with the consent of the First Deputy Prime Minister, a block of shares owned by the state.

In the spring of 1995, in connection with the problem of providing Moscow with food, the conflict between Chubais and Moscow Mayor Luzhkov developed again. On May 27, 1995, Anatoly Chubais, speaking at an extended meeting of the Public Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation, stated that due to the “close connection of the Moscow authorities with those who import products,” the Moscow market is closed to agricultural producers in the central and northwestern regions of Russia . “The connection between food importers and the Moscow authorities is too close,” Chubais emphasized. In this regard, he spoke in favor of increasing import tariffs on food. In turn, the Moscow mayor's office accused Chubais of either deliberate misinformation or ignorance of fundamental information about the state of the Russian economy. The mayor stated that the possibilities for wholesale supplies of agricultural products from the regions of the Center of Russia are extremely limited, since almost all food is produced in the regions for domestic consumption.

On October 18, 1995, at a meeting of the commission on non-payments, Chubais demanded that the general director of the Nizhnevartovskneftegaz association, Viktor Paliy, either half repay the enterprise's debts to the federal budget by January 1, or resign. The First Deputy Prime Minister said then that Nizhnevartovskneftegaz JSC was the first of the largest budget debtors to undergo a detailed analysis. Enterprises of the Ministry of Railways are next in line. “The conversation will be extremely tough. Otherwise, we will achieve nothing with prices, non-payments, or the authority of the executive branch,” said Anatoly Chubais.

Since January 1996 - President of the Foundation for the Protection of Private Property.

On January 16, 1996, Boris Yeltsin removed Anatoly Chubais from his duties as first deputy prime minister of the government. At the same time, the president noted “the low demands of Anatoly Chubais on subordinate federal departments and the failure to fulfill a number of instructions from the President of the Russian Federation.” Some observers linked Chubais's resignation with the defeat in the elections of the Democratic Choice of Russia, of which Chubais had traditionally been a supporter. Others believed that Chubais’s resignation was connected with Boris Yeltsin’s decision to run for a second term, and winning the presidential election with the “father of privatization” in the government, which was not loved by the people, seemed problematic.

After his resignation, in an interview with Obshchaya Gazeta (February 22, 1996), Anatoly Chubais said: “I want to take the plant and pull it out. With a full analysis of the entire financial situation, cash flows, sales markets, technological links, marketing, sources in and the scale of theft, and so on. Shake all this up and turn the plant into a workable structure.” But according to Chubais, he cannot afford to do this because Gennady Zyuganov is the number one candidate in the June 16 elections: “In my opinion, there is no more important task in Russia today than the fight against the communist threat. Personally, I will try to do “For this, I can do everything I can. Build a structure that can mobilize and consolidate to the maximum extent the serious resources that are behind me. Collect the largest non-state resources available in the country for these purposes.”

In February 1996, in Davos, bankers Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin met with Anatoly Chubais on the issue of financing Boris Yeltsin’s election campaign.

In April - June 1996, he actively participated in the election campaign of Boris Yeltsin. He was the head of the analytical group of Yeltsin's election headquarters. According to unofficial information, at the headquarters Chubais oversaw issues of financing the election campaign.

In June 1996, he actively participated in the story related to the detention of activists of the presidential election headquarters Sergei Lisovsky and Arkady Evstafiev by the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation. On the morning of June 19, Anatoly Chubais met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and told him about what had happened. After the meeting with Chubais, the president signed a decree on the resignations of the head of his security service, Alexander Korzhakov, the director of the Federal Security Service, Mikhail Barsukov, and Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets.

In June 1996, Anatoly Chubais announced that he was going to go to “big business.” According to Chubais, he was going to organize a company for consulting and managing privatized enterprises.

On July 15, 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while on vacation at the Barvikha sanatorium, signed a decree appointing Anatoly Chubais as head of the Russian Presidential Administration. After his appointment, Chubais stated that he did not intend to deal with economic policy issues, but would focus his activities on state building.

In January 1997, Chubais paid the state a tax on personal income - 515 million rubles. In his declaration, he indicated that from April to July 1996 he earned $278 thousand from “lectures and consultations.” Journalists from the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper (January 25, 1997) calculated: in order to earn such a sum, Chubais “had to speak without interruption throughout the entire election campaign” (for a fee of $500 per hour).

On March 7, 1997, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for operational management.

March 11, 1997 - appointed head of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Federation for cooperation with international financial and economic organizations and the Group of Seven. On the same day, Chubais was appointed manager of the Russian Federation at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

Since May 22, 1997 - member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of the summer of 1997, he headed the commission for financial and economic support of military reform under the Defense Council of the Russian Federation.

On November 20, 1997, he was relieved of his position as Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. (This is due to Yeltsin’s decision to split the post of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Chubais retained the post of First Deputy Prime Minister)

On March 12, 1998, he was appointed chairman of the Russian Government Commission for ensuring federal budget revenues.

In April 1998, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia.

In June 1998, he was appointed special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international financial organizations. (According to Yeltsin, the appointment is temporary, then Chubais will work at his job).

He was the head of the election headquarters of the Union of Right Forces.

Co-chairman of the ATP Coordination Council.

On April 2, 1999, the State Duma addressed to Seleznev received a letter from Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov in response to the chamber’s resolution “On violations of the laws of the Russian Federation during the elections of the Board of Directors and the replacement of the position of chairman of the board of RAO ES “Russia”. The essence of the letter is that the current chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais was “wrongfully appointed to this position without the approval and issuance of an order of the Russian government on the appointment” (RIA Novosti, 1999).

In accordance with the current legislation and the Charter of RAO UES of Russia, the chairman of the board of RAO UES is appointed to the position by the Board of Directors of RAO, and not by the government of the Russian Federation, said Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES Yulia Mozharenko. The appointment of the chairman of the board of RAO by the government does not comply with the norms of the Civil Code and the Law “On Joint-Stock Companies”. In addition, the appointment of the head of RAO by the government will violate the rights of 400 thousand shareholders of RAO UES. (RBC, 1999)

In the summer of 2000, Chubais was one of those who signed an open letter to Putin protesting against the use of such a preventive measure as arrest against Vladimir Gusinsky.

On January 24, 2001, Chubais announced a program to expand the powers of the company's shareholders. At the same time, he made a statement that the energy reform in Russia was entering the “implementation” stage, and on April 15 of this year the start of the holding’s restructuring would be officially announced.

In September 2000, the Accounts Chamber discovered a lot of violations during the privatization of RAO UES of Russia. The Accounts Chamber believes that in 1992, during the privatization of RAO UES, 15% of its shares were illegally bought by foreigners. Anatoly Chubais himself immediately after the meeting of the board of the Accounts Chamber stated that the Prosecutor General's Office will not accept the claims of the Accounts Chamber regarding the privatization of the energy company.

In February 2001, he issued an order to create an anti-crisis headquarters for fuel supply to power plants in Siberia and the Far East.

In October 2002, he was re-elected president of the Energy Council of the CIS countries. Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 1983 he defended his dissertation on the topic: “Research and development of planning methods for improving management in industrial scientific and technical organizations.”

In 2004, after Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned, Anatoly Chubais formulated the slogan of a “liberal empire” - a formula for Russian business expansion in the CIS and “cutting a window from Russia to America.”

In June 2003, on the eve of the elections to the Duma of the current convocation, Chubais took a risky step: he included himself in the top three leaders of the Union of Right Forces, but the party was defeated, and without breaking the 5% barrier, it remained outside parliament.

Chubais’s latest political project: he proposed that the current leaders of the right resign, and ex-Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov become their successor.

Military rank - reserve private. Award for Outstanding New Excellence from the private American Institute for Oriental and Western Studies (July 1994). Honorary badge "I paid taxes" III degree (established by the magazine "Persons" in January 1997). Based on the results of 1997, he was recognized as the best finance minister in the world by the English economic magazine Euromoney.

Biography

State

Partners

Competitors

Area of ​​interest

Personal life

Biography

Parents: Father, Boris Matveevich Chubais (b. 1918), is a retired colonel, teacher of Marxist-Leninist philosophy at the Leningrad Mining Institute. Mother - Raisa Khaimovna Sagal (b. 1918), housewife. She is an economist by profession, but she has never worked - she traveled with her husband to garrisons.

By the way: the Chubais came from the Baltic states and were invited to Russia by Peter I.

Initially the surname sounded like Chubaites. “There are so few of us that all people with the last name Chubais are relatives” (from an interview with Igor Chubais, Anatoly Chubais’s older brother, to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, January 27, 1997).

In 1977 Anatoly Chubais graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute (LIEI) named after. Palmiro Tolyatti.

In 1983 defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Research and development of planning methods for improving management in industrial scientific and technical organizations.”

In 1977-1982 worked at LIEI as an engineer and assistant.

From 1982 to 1990 - Associate Professor at LIEI.

In 1984-1987 Anatoly Chubais was the informal leader of a circle of young economists created by a group of LIEI graduates. The “circle” also included: elder brother Igor Chubais, current Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin, Chubais’s employees - Pyotr Mostovoy, Alexander Kazakov, current president of the St. Petersburg Banking House Vladimir Kogan and some others. Close to this group were Kudrin’s classmates: the current Minister of Antimonopoly Policy Ilya Yuzhanov and the Chairman of the Board of OJSC MDM Bank St. Petersburg Olga Kazanskaya, as well as the murdered in 1997. Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Mikhail Manevich.

In 1990 Anatoly Chubais became deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council in 1990-1991. - First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Since July 1991 - Chief Economic Adviser to the Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak.

Since November 1991 - Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management (GKI) - Minister of Russia.

June 2, 1992 Chubais was appointed deputy chairman of the government - Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

For 1992 The GKI, under the leadership of Anatoly Chubais, developed a privatization program and carried out its technical preparation.

In the period from 1992 to 1997. The privatization of Russian enterprises was almost completely carried out. 150 million privatization checks (vouchers) were issued.

By the beginning of 1997 127 thousand enterprises were privatized. In parallel with the privatization process, there was also an intensive formation of new private enterprises. As a result, by the beginning of 1997, according to the State Statistics Committee, state enterprises accounted for 16% of the total number of registered legal entities, including about 200 thousand enterprises and organizations in federal ownership (8 .4% of all legal entities). At the end of 1997 131 thousand enterprises remained in federal ownership (5% of the total number of legal entities), including 13 thousand unitary enterprises. In addition, there were about 5 thousand blocks of shares in federal ownership, assigned to the ownership of the federal government for various periods, as well as a little more than 1 thousand “golden shares”. Critics reproach Chubais for the fact that privatization in Russia took place under the slogan “Loans for shares,” and most of the enterprises were given away for next to nothing.

As a result, in 2001, according to analysts, only 8 oligarchic clans controlled 85% of the value of the 64 richest Russian private companies. The total turnover of just the first 12 companies was equivalent to the revenue side of the government budget. Chubais speaks of privatization as follows: “Privatization has a lot of disadvantages: economic, political, and social. But it has one advantage: it succeeded. This dignity is worth a lot. At least it is better than the sound, effective in all respects and error-free model of privatization, which remains a model.”

"At the end of 1991 There was no state as a system of institutions that set norms and ensure their implementation in Russia. There was a massive theft of state property. Stopping it was unthinkable. Hence the simple dilemma: either this process will be introduced into some legal framework - say, these will be those damned three options for privatization, or in a couple of years it will turn out that there is nothing left to privatize. Probably, the chosen framework was not always the most successful; the system of penalties for violations was extremely weak. And yet, only this way was it possible to avoid gigantic theft.”

December 24, 1994 By government decree, Anatoly Chubais was appointed chairman of the Federal Energy Commission.

From 1995 to December 7, 1996 - Member of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of JSC "Public Russian Television".

From February to July 1996 - President of the Foundation for the Protection of Private Property.

In April-June 1996 Chubais actively participated in Boris Yeltsin's election campaign. He was the head of the analytical group of Yeltsin's election headquarters. According to unofficial information, at the headquarters Chubais oversaw issues of financing the election campaign.

July 15, 1996 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree appointing Anatoly Chubais as head of the Russian Presidential Administration. After his appointment, Chubais stated that he did not intend to deal with economic policy issues, but would focus his activities on state building.

March 7, 1997 By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for operational management.

March 11, 1997 Chubais was appointed head of the Russian Interdepartmental Commission for Cooperation with International Financial and Economic Organizations and the G7. On the same day, Chubais was appointed manager of the Russian Federation at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

Since May 1997 - Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

November 12, 1997 Journalist Alexander Minkin, in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station, announced Chubais’s intention with a group of co-authors to write a book about privatization in Russia. Minkin said that he has documents according to which all five authors should receive $90 thousand in royalties. According to Chubais, under an agreement with the publishers, the authors agreed to return 95% of the royalties to a certain Middle Class Support Fund, and he himself has already done this.

November 20, 1997 Anatoly Chubais was relieved of his post as Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, while retaining the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Government.

March 23, 1998 simultaneously with the decree on the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin signed a separate decree on the resignation of Chubais.

From June 17 to August 28, 1998 - Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international financial organizations with the rank of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

June 19, 1998 by the meeting of shareholders he was elected chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia. By the way: before Chubais, the government appointed eight of its representatives to the board of directors of the company. The remaining seven directors were elected by shareholders. The chairman of the board was also appointed by the government from among state representatives. Thus, the state, which owns a controlling stake in RAO, protected its interests. When Chubais appeared in the company, this order was disrupted.

In mid-1998 (contrary to the law and presidential decrees), the list of state representatives was submitted to a general vote of shareholders along with other candidates. Largely thanks to the votes of the company's foreign shareholders, Anatoly Chubais headed RAO.

Since May 20, 2000 to May 27, 2001 - Chairman of the Union of Right Forces movement. Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. He was awarded the medal “For Outstanding New Excellence” by the private American Institute for East-West Studies (July 1994), and the honorary badge “I Paid My Taxes”, 3rd degree (established by the magazine “Faces” in January 1997). Based on the results of 1997. The English economic magazine Euromoney recognized him as the best finance minister in the world.

State

Anatoly Chubais has the right to vote on behalf of about 35% of RAO shares owned by foreign companies. These shares exist in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The nominee holder of the ADR is The Bank of New York. And according to the agreement between RAO UES of Russia and the Bank of New York, the right to vote on behalf of the owners of ADRs belongs solely to the chairman of RAO. The total volume of controlled funds is $3.25 billion (according to the Kommersant newspaper). According to Anatoly Chubais in the State Duma , his monthly salary is approved by the board of RAO UES of Russia and is about 120 thousand rubles, but this amount does not take into account bonuses, bonuses and dividends. According to media estimates, this amount is about $30 thousand per month.

Anatoly Chubais maintains relations with many of those in the highest echelons of Russian power who are commonly called “Moscow St. Petersburgers.” As for political sympathies, unlike most major Russian businessmen, Chubais actively demonstrates his belonging to the camp of right-wing liberals. In the early 1990s. he was part of the “Russia’s Choice” bloc, then a member of the “Democratic Choice of Russia” (DVR) party from the first to the last day of its existence, and is currently one of the co-chairs of the Union of Right Forces. According to the media, Chubais was the main organizer of the creation of the Union of Right Forces as a coalition of all right-wing liberal political parties and movements. According to numerous evidence, it was Chubais who “built” the top three of the SPS electoral list that was optimal for a dynamic and market-oriented electorate: Kiriyenko-Nemtsov-Khakamada. And he convinced Yegor Gaidar to take a back seat in the campaign, remembering the sad experience of the 1995 elections for the Far Eastern Republic, when Gaidar headed the party list. According to analysts, RAO UES of Russia has a powerful lobby, both in the State Duma and in the Council Federation of the Russian Federation.

Partners

Dmitry Vasiliev in 1991 became Chubais's deputy at the State Property Committee in 1994-2000. headed the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM), now the first deputy general director of Mosenergo OJSC for corporate governance and property management. Alfred Koch, previously deputy chairman of the State Property Management Committee (Kugi) of St. Petersburg, then was Chubais’ successor as head of the State Property Committee, is still among the personal friends of the head of RAO UES. Petr Mostovoy worked for a long time as the first deputy chairman of the State Property Committee, and then headed the Federal Department for Insolvency (Bankruptcy), currently Mostovoy is the chairman of the Round Table business in Russia. In 2001 he became a member of the political council of the Union of Right Forces. Alexander Kazakov was deputy head of the department at the State Committee for Science and Technology. Under the leadership of Chubais, he made a brilliant career, going from the head of the main department at the State Property Committee to the deputy prime minister and head of this department, and then the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration (when Anatoly Chubais headed the presidential administration).

Maxim Boyko - in 1992 As a scientific expert, he is part of the working group of consultants of the State Property Committee, where he becomes close to Anatoly Chubais. After Chubais was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister, Boyko became his deputy in the commission on economic reform and its executive secretary. In 1994 - Head of the Russian Privatization Center (RCP), then - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Boris Mints headed the Department for the Development of Local Self-Government of the Presidential Administration, in 2001. On the initiative of Chubais, he headed the executive committee of the SPS party. Having left this post due to disagreements with Boris Nemtsov, Mints currently runs the Ren-TV television company, controlled by Chubais.

Leonid Gozman began working with Chubais as his adviser in the government, is currently on the board of RAO UES of Russia and at the same time is a member of the political council of the Union of Right Forces. Andrey Rappoport during the first half of the 1990s. was the chairman of the board of Alfa Bank, then worked for about a year and a half in the YUKOS system as the first vice president of the company. At RAO UES, Rappoport took the post of deputy chairman of the board responsible for investments in 2002. Rappoport headed the board of the newly created Federal Grid Company. Valentin Zavadnikov began his business career in the Nakhodka free economic zone, then was engaged in managerial activities in Moscow, and for some time headed the apparatus of the “Forward, Russia!” movement. Boris Fedorov, but had not previously worked with Chubais himself. At RAO Zavadnikov headed the property department, and soon became deputy chairman of the board. Zavadnikov is considered the main developer of the energy holding reform project, but his ideas were not fully implemented. In 2001 he was elected a member of the Federation Council, where he heads the industrial policy committee and actively acts as a lobbyist for energy reform.

Sergei Dubinin (formerly Acting Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation) is currently Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia. Yakov Urinson (former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy) currently holds the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia .

Competitors

Chubais' strong opponents are the heads of metropolitan cities - Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev, who created municipal electric grid companies and want to control the transit and sales of electricity themselves.

Chubais also has tense relations with the presidents of Tatarstan and Bashkiria, Mintimer Shaimiev and Murtaza Rakhimov, who also control their own energy sector.

Chubais has a difficult relationship with the president of the Rosenergoatom concern, Oleg Saraev, as well as with the SUEK company (fuel supplier for power plants) owned by the MDM group.

From Chubais’ interview with the weekly Kommersant. Money”: “For example, it is known that I do not have a very simple relationship with the current owners - the team of Abramovich and Deripaska, but compared to the previous owners - this is simply a qualitatively different level in terms of basic ethical values, and in terms of methods doing business, and, just in case, from the point of view of the general level of culture. And the reason for these qualitative changes, in my opinion, is simple: the style that the Chernys had no longer fits into Russian realities.”

Both Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska pose a truly tangible threat, since they actively oppose the restructuring of RAO UES of Russia and are buying up its shares. They would like to control a significant share in Russia's energy sector.

In 1999-2000 Deripaska was a partner of Chubais, together with him they were going to create the Sayany Energy and Metallurgical Company OJSC on the basis of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station and Siberian Aluminum. However, Deripaska merged aluminum assets with Abramovich, which put him at odds with Chubais - he did not want to deal with the then abstract entity called Rusal. After this, Deripaska and Chubais have been in almost constant conflict. All of Chubais’s former rivals in the government have been removed from power: the head of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy Viktor Kalyuzhny, the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Evgeny Adamov, the Deputy Minister of Energy Viktor Kudryavy was dismissed, the governor of Primorye Evgeny Nazdratenko was defeated. 80% of the heads of regional energy systems have been replaced, and personnel loyal to Chubais have been placed everywhere.

Regional governors are afraid of the dependence of the regional economies on RAO - all territories are in debt to power engineers, and a crisis may occur at any moment.

Area of ​​interest

The greatest interest for Anatoly Chubais now is: - restructuring of RAO UES of Russia; - attracting strategic investors in the energy sector; - exporting electricity. Chubais himself made it clear to the media that after the completion of the restructuring he would leave the energy sector and engage in large financial business.

Personal life

According to his colleagues, “Chubais, on the one hand, is pragmatic, and on the other, a very principled person. He never gave up his own under any circumstances. This is his absolutely rigid principle - not a single person can say that he worked with Chubais, and he set him up.” He is in his second marriage. Wife: Maria Davydovna Vishnevskaya. There is a son and daughter from his first marriage: Alexey (born in 1980) and Olga (born in 1983). He is interested in water tourism and loves the nature of Karelia and Kamchatka with its geysers and volcanoes. Chubais does not like to talk about his personal life. He has few close friends. The closest one is Yegor Gaidar, whom Chubais greatly respects and whose friendship he especially values. He is friends with Mstislav Rostropovich, although due to Chubais’s busy schedule and Rostropovich’s constant travels, they do not meet often. It is worth mentioning separately about Bulat Okudzhava - despite the age difference, Chubais and Okudzhava were very close. By the way, there is an opinion that the last poem that Okudzhava wrote before his death was dedicated to Chubais.

A few years ago, the social scene was excited by one of the “burning” news, which was connected with the personal life of a major Russian official, whose fortune amounts to many billions of rubles. Of course, we are talking about the privatization ideologist Anatoly Borisovich Chubais. He simply left the family for another woman. Naturally, the public could not ignore such detail of the personal life of the famous politician and savored it “from the heart.” Everyone suddenly wanted to know who would now take on the status of “Chubais’ wife.”

“Treason? Not him"

This secret was revealed by the shocking actor of Soviet cinema Stanislav Sadalsky, who is known for his caustic comments on LiveJournal, and Bozena Rynska, a professional journalist. It was they who told the public who was lucky enough to bear the loud “title” - Chubais’s wife.

An excerpt from the post speaks for itself: “The billionaire abandoned his family without taking any property with him at all. He had an affair with..."

It is noteworthy that the now ex-wife of the head of RUSNANO always spoke warmly about Russian politics. “He is not capable of betrayal, because he has natural conservatism. Anatoly Borisovich has his own moral code, the norms of which he strictly observes. Only if he truly falls in love can he break off the relationship,” said Chubais’s ex-wife Maria Vishnevskaya. Some claimed that Vishnevskaya worked part-time at a modeling agency, and the future reformer became very interested in the girl with long legs. But in reality it was different. Their acquaintance occurred when they both worked at the same engineering and economic institute in the city on the Neva as research assistants.

First wife

It should be noted that Maria Vishnevskaya is Chubais’s second wife. He began to live with her after he left his first wife Lyudmila. She bore him a son and a daughter and subsequently became a restaurateur.

It should be noted that the “evil genius of the 90s” regularly helped his first wife with money. Lyudmila even opened her own restaurant, denying, however, that her ex-husband provided financial assistance to her. One way or another, Anatoly Borisovich lived with his second wife in happiness and harmony for twenty years. But they had to part. So, what is the name of Chubais wife No. 3?

Biography of Dunya

Anatoly Borisovich’s chosen one, Avdotya Andreevna Smirnova, is by no means a mediocre figure in the cultural life of Russia. It is enough to pay attention to its related origin. She is the granddaughter of the famous writer who wrote “Brest Fortress”. Her father is an equally eminent director, and her mother, the popular actress Dunya, showed her “radical” maximalism from a young age, demonstrating to others her unbridled temper. Not only could she offend with a strong word, but she was also an unprincipled person. Fortunately, this went away as she grew older.

The beginning of a creative journey

After school, she dreamed of entering the screenwriting department, but her father was hostile to her endeavors.

As a result, she became a student at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, but then still entered GITIS (theater studies). Fate brought her together with the famous director Sergei Solovyov, who eventually approved her for the position of editor of the Circle.

For some time she worked as a journalist in the print publication Kommersant, then worked as a book reviewer for the magazines Afisha and Stolitsa. In parallel with this, she writes scripts for films.

Avdotya Smirnova spent time working in the field of art management. She showed interest in the performances of the “New Artists” and attended rock band parties in the capital. As already emphasized, Chubais’s future wife Dunya created exclusive scripts that were quite in demand. The films in which they were involved often received prestigious awards. The most fruitful collaboration was with Smirnova, who, based on her scripts, made such films as “The Diary of His Wife,” “The Walk,” and “Giselle’s Mania.” Avdotya Andreevna also wrote the script for Andrei Konchalovsky’s famous film “Gloss,” thanks to which her popularity rating became even higher. Among other things, Chubais’s wife was involved in directing herself. In 2006, she became the author of the film “Communication”, and two years later viewers saw her film production of I. Turgenev’s classic work “Fathers and Sons”.

Project “School of Scandal”

Some still believe that Dunya Smirnova was recognized by the whole country after the release of this particular television program.

In the fall of 2002, the first episode of “School of Scandal” was released on the NTV channel. Together with the famous writer and publicist Tatyana Tolstaya, Avdotya Smirnova became the first person in this project, which was created to have a conversation with the main character, reveal his strengths and weaknesses, find out his creative plans and, as they say, “turn his soul inside out.” Famous people who, one way or another, contributed to national culture came to visit the hosts. It should be noted that Chubais’s third wife, whose photo periodically appears on the pages of the press, does not often appear on television after the closure of the above program.

Another role of Avdotya

Not everyone knows that Smirnova was involved in another case for some time. In the 90s, she was part of the team of speechwriters for the famous political figure Sergei Kiriyenko. By the way, her friends Tatyana Tolstaya and Alexander Timofeevsky became her colleagues in the workshop. It was this trio that was responsible for the passage of the SPS party into the country's legislative body and victory in the mayoral elections. Then they “promoted” him into big politics, who subsequently took a seat in parliament.

Fateful acquaintance

Now it’s no secret to anyone who Chubais’s wife is Anatoly.

But not everyone knows how Smirnova met the future head of Rusnano. They became friends just when Dunya was working as a speechwriter. And for eight whole years they continued to communicate closely with each other, after which a romance broke out between them.

"High Relationships"

When the relationship between Chubais and Avdotya Andreevna grew into something more than just friendship, the privatization ideologist did not hide this naturally flared romance from the public. After some time, the billionaire proposed his hand and heart to his new lover, and she agreed. “Avdotya and I did not organize magnificent celebrations, limiting ourselves to a modest dinner in a close circle. I express my gratitude to everyone who congratulated us,” he wrote on his blog.

At the same time, some note that Smirnova’s next marriage benefited her: she became even slimmer, dyed her hair black and began wearing dark clothes. There was a “creative break” in work.

After Dunya became Chubais’s wife, she completely focused on “keeping the hearth and hearth”, forgetting about journalism and scripts.

Smirnova also rarely appears in secular society with her new husband, but when she does appear, she will certainly shock the audience with her glamorous outfits. At the same time, in an interview, she stated that for now she does not in any way intend to “distance herself from the public.” Marriage to Avdotya Andreevna somewhat changed the life of Anatoly Borisovich. With his wife, he began attending exhibitions and cultural events. Naturally, not without the influence of Dunya.

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Soviet and Russian political and economic figure, liberal and reformer, general director of the corporation (Russian Nanotechnology Corporation). Anatoly Chubais was the chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia. One of the leaders of market and energy reforms in Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

Childhood and adolescence of Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais was born on June 16, 1955 into a military family. Boris Matveevich Chubais, father of the politician, retired colonel, who taught the philosophy of Lenin and Marx at the Leningrad Mining Institute. Raisa Efimovna Segal, Anatoly’s mother, is an economist by training, but has never worked in her specialty. She looked after the children and the house.

Raisa Efimovna paid great attention to her sons. Brother of Anatoly Chubais, Igor, achieved significant heights. He became a Doctor of Philosophy, professor of the Department of Social Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the RUDN University. Anatoly’s parents sent him to school in Odessa. Already there he began to become interested in exact sciences and come up with various kinds of inventions.

Anatoly Chubais in his youth with his mother

Since the mid-60s of the twentieth century, the politician’s family lived in Lvov, and in 1967, due to their father’s service, they moved to Leningrad. There, as Anatoly himself said, he studied at a school with an emphasis on military-patriotic education. Boris Matveevich and Anatoly’s older brother often discussed politics and philosophy, and young Anatoly Chubais took part in this. Such debates influenced the choice of future profession as a politician.

Student life politics

In 1972, Anatoly entered the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Palmiro Togliatti at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 1977, the future politician graduated from the institute with honors. He began working at the same institute as a teacher, engineer and teaching assistant. While working at the institute, Anatoly wrote his dissertation. He successfully defended it in 83 of the twentieth century.

A. B. Chubais in his youth and now

The beginning of Chubais' political career

In 1980, Anatoly joined the Communist Party. At that time, Leningrad was experiencing the active development of the democratic movement. Leningrad economists founded a circle in which Anatoly Chubais, Grigory Glazkov and Yuri Yarmagaev became leaders. Together they worked on a scientific report entitled “Improving the management of scientific and technological progress in production.” The circle also included the vice-president of the Banking House "St. Petersburg", the future deputy prime minister, Mikhail Manevich, the late governor of St. Petersburg, and Anatoly's older brother Igor Chubais.

Political activities of Anatoly Chubais

In 1990, Anatoly Chubais took the post of deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, and then became the first deputy.

In 1991 Anatoly Sobchak, mayor of St. Petersburg, appointed Anatoly Chubais as leading economic adviser. He quickly climbed the career ladder thanks to his intelligence and talent.

A. Chubais and A. Sobchak

In November 1991, he became chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management. In 1992, the head of state appointed him deputy prime minister.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Anatoly Chubais

In 1992, Chubais began and finished creating a privatization program. By the beginning of 1997, more than 127 thousand enterprises had been privatized.

In 1998, at a special meeting of the co-owners of the shares of RAO UES of Russia, it was decided to take Anatoly Chubais to the Board of Directors, and later he was appointed to the position of Chairman of the Government.

Anatoly Chubais is a prominent figure in politics. From a deputy of the State Duma “Russia’s Choice”, the creator of the “Civil Society Foundation”, which predetermined the activities of the association of analysts of Yeltsin’s election headquarters, to the position of chairman of the government.

Anatoly Chubais

In June 2003, Anatoly Chubais became one of the top three leaders of the Union of Right Forces, but the party failed. When the politician left the post of party chairman, he became a member of the federal political council. In the fall of 2008, the political party accepted Anatoly Chubais into the Supreme Council "Just cause».

For his political achievements and economic success, the private American Institute, which studies issues of East and West, awarded Anatoly Chubais the Outstanding New Excellence Award in 1994. Euromoney magazine (England) gave the politician the title of Best Finance Minister in the World. Anatoly Chubais also received many Gratitudes from the President of the Russian Federation. Anatoly Chubais is a venerable doctor of the University of Engineering and Economics of St. Petersburg. In addition, he is an Actual State Advisor of Russia, first class.

Anatoly Chubais and Vladimir Putin

Personal life of a politician

In the first marriage of Anatoly Chubais and Lyudmila Grigorieva were born son Alexey(1980) and daughter Olga(1983). Both followed in their father’s footsteps and chose a direction related to economics.

In 1989, the marriage of Anatoly and Lyudmila broke up, but the politician always financially supported his children.

In 1990, Chubais met Maria Vishnevskaya and married her. The woman supported her husband in everything, be it career growth or rapid decline. Maria worked in a hospital for hopelessly ill people, but communication with them left an imprint on the woman’s mental health and on the personal life of the spouses. Anatoly Chubais took his wife to various prestigious clinics, wanting to cure her, but all attempts were unsuccessful. After being married for 21 years, Anatoly Chubais and Maria Vishnevskaya separated. Anatoly left all his property to his ex-wife.

Anatoly Chubais and Maria Vishnevskaya

In January 2012, Anatoly Chubais legalized his relationship with the famous TV presenter and director Avdotya Smirnova.

Anatoly Chubais with Avdotya Smirnova

Now Anatoly Borisovich is happy, enjoys active recreation and tries to keep abreast of all the news on the World Wide Web. Anatoly Chubais still loves the British rock band "The Beatles",Bulat Okudzhava and Yuri Vizbor. In cinema, he is most attracted to the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Kira Muratova and Leonid Gaidai. At this point in time, Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is the general director of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation.

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a human symbol, a demonized hero of political battles, a reformer and liberal, whom some consider an outstanding personality, while others consider him an “all-Russian allergen.”

In 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after Palmiro Tolyatti. In 1983 he completed his postgraduate studies. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute.

The childhood and youth of Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly Chubais, born into a military family, learned all the “delights” of garrison life from childhood. Father, Boris Matveevich Chubais, became a retiree with the rank of colonel and taught students of the Leningrad Mining Institute the philosophy of Lenin and Marx. Mother, Raisa Khamovna Sagal, had an extraordinary mind, had a specialty in economics, however, she never worked, devoting herself to the family and raising her sons.

The mother paid attention to the multifaceted development of the boy, as well as his brother Igor, who in the future became a Doctor of Philosophy, professor of the Department of Social Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the RUDN University.

Even at school (the future politician became a first-grader in Odessa), Anatoly preferred exact sciences and came up with all sorts of clever inventions.

In the mid-60s, the family lived in Lviv, and in 1967, military service brought the father and the whole family to the city of palaces and museums. In Leningrad, Chubais studied at a school with military-patriotic education.

In the family of a Soviet officer, there were often discussions regarding political and philosophical topics, and young Anatoly was an unwitting witness to the debates that took place between his father and his older brother. This uniquely influenced the young man’s choice and he chose the economics university over the philosophical direction.

Student years and the beginning of Chubais’s career in politics

In 1972, Anatoly became a student at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after Palmiro Tolyatti. He chose the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The future ideologist and leader of Russian market reforms and privatization activities graduated from his first alma mater with honors in 1977.

Chubais’s work experience began within the walls of his native institute, where he worked as an engineer, assistant and associate professor. At the same time, he was writing a dissertation, which he successfully defended in 1983.

Chubais - March of the Nanists

In 1980, Anatoly decided to join the Communist Party. At that time, the democratic movement was actively developing in Leningrad. Leningrad economists organized an informal circle, the leader of which was Chubais, along with Grigory Glazkov and Yuri Yarmagaev. The fruit of their joint work was the scientific work “Improving the management of scientific and technological progress in production.”

Members of the circle also included future Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, President of the Banking House "St. Petersburg" Vladimir Kogan, the late Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Mikhail Manevich, as well as older brother Igor.

Political career of Anatoly Chubais

In 1990, Anatoly Chubais took the post of deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, and a little later became first deputy. In 1991, the mayor of the city, Anatoly Sobchak, invited him to the position of chief economic adviser.

Possessing a talent as a politician and a brilliant analytical mind, Chubais rapidly moved up the career ladder. In November 1991, he was appointed chairman of the Russian State Committee for State Property Management. And already in 1992, President Boris Yeltsin entrusted him with the post of Deputy Prime Minister. IN

During 1992, Chubais created a privatization program, as a result of which by the beginning of 1997, 127,000 enterprises had been privatized. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of RAO UES of Russia decided to elect Chubais to the Board of Directors. Also in 1998, he became chairman of the board.

Anatoly Chubais. Exclusive interview.

In politics, Anatoly Chubais is a prominent figure. He went through the path of a State Duma deputy from Russia's Choice, was the creator of the Civil Society Foundation, which predetermined the work of a group of analysts at Yeltsin's election headquarters.

Before the Duma elections in June 2003, he became one of the top three leaders of the Union of Right Forces, but the party suffered defeat. After resigning from the post of party chairman, he was a member of the federal political council, and in November 2008, the Right Cause political party accepted him into the Supreme Council.

Now Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is the head of Rusnano. His political successes and economic achievements are appreciated by the domestic and world community. The private American Institute for the Study of East and West Studies awarded him the 1994 Outstanding New Artist Award.

The English economic magazine Euromoney named him the best finance minister in the world. He has been awarded many Commendations from the President of Russia and is an Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class. Anatoly Chubais, honorary doctor of the University of Engineering and Economics, St. Petersburg.

Personal life, Anatoly Chubais today

From his first marriage, Anatoly Chubais had a son, Alexey, and a daughter, Olga. Both chose the economic direction. In 1989, the marriage broke up, however, material support from the ex-husband and father remained decent.

In 1990, Chubais married Maria Vishnevskaya for the second time. His wife supported Anatoly during his rapid career growth and, as expected, was a support in both joy and sorrow.

Working in a hospice and interacting with terminally ill patients left an imprint on the woman’s mental health. This affected the personal life of the spouses. Treatment in the most prestigious clinics was unsuccessful. After 21 years of marriage they separated. All property remained to Maria Vishnevskaya.