Igor Chubais

Igor Chubais
Игорь Чубайс
Chubais in 2017
Born (1947-04-26) 26 April 1947 (age 77)
Berlin, Soviet occupation zone of Germany
Nationality
Alma materLeningrad State University
EraContemporary
RegionRussia
InstitutionsPeoples' Friendship University of Russia
Main interests
Philosophy, Russian studies
Igor Chubais' voice
Chubais on the Echo of Moscow program, 22 November 2014


Igor Borisovich Chubais (Russian: И́горь Бори́сович Чуба́йс; born 26 April 1947[1]) 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.[2] 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.[3] He is a board member of the Russian Writers Union.[4]

He is the older brother of Russian billionaire oligarch and politician Anatoly Chubais.[5] The two have starkly different politics, and do not communicate with one another.[6]

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.[7]

In the 2018 Russian presidential election, he was a confidant of Grigory Yavlinsky.[8]

  1. ^ ""Первые шаги Железного Талейрана" — Белорусская деловая газета" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 November 2005. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Игорь Борисович Чубайс" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Телефонный справочник РУДН" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 March 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Русская служба новостей" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. ^ Чубайс, Анатолий Collection of materials at Lenta.ru (in Russian)
  6. ^ «Брата два» — Вслух.ру (in Russian)
  7. ^ Заявление «Круглого стола 12 декабря» к Маршу Мира 21-го сентября (in Russian)
  8. ^ "Vladimir Ryzhkov and Tatyana Kotlyar are among Yavlinsky's proxies". RIA Novosti. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.