{"id":1396580,"date":"2022-03-23T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396580"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:14:39","slug":"highest-level-russian-official-yet-leaves-russia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/highest-level-russian-official-yet-leaves-russia-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest-Level Russian Official Yet Leaves Russia: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhighest-level-russian-official-yet-leaves-russia-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-627821240.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, news broke that Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais, who served as Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s special representative for ties with international organizations, became the highest-level official to apparently reject Putin\u2019s war against Ukraine and had left Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was appointed to the post, which was charged with \u2018achieving goals of sustainable development,\u2019 in 2020, days after resigning as the head of state technology firm RUSNANO, which he had run since 2008,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-reformer-chubais-leaves-post-putins-special-representative-source-2022-03-23\/\">Reuters<\/a> stated, adding, \u201cReached by a Reuters reporter, Chubais hung up his phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Chubais had resigned but did not confirm he had left the country. \u2018Yes. Chubais resigned of his own free will. But whether he left or did not leave, that\u2019s his business,\u00a0Peskov told the Interfax news agency,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/03\/23\/russia-putin-adviser-chubais\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChubais, 66, is one of the few 1990s-era economic reformers who\u2019d remained in Putin\u2019s government and had maintained close ties with Western officials,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-23\/putin-adviser-chubais-quits-over-ukraine-war-and-leaves-russia\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported. \u201cKnown as the architect of Russia\u2019s 1990s privatizations, Chubais gave Putin his first Kremlin job in the mid-1990s and initially welcomed his rise to power at the end of that decade. Under Putin, Chubais took top jobs at big state companies until the president named him envoy for sustainable development last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chubais reportedly announced his resignation on Tuesday; last week he posted on Facebook a tribute to economic reformer Yegor Gaidar, who served as the acting Prime Minister of Russia between June 1992 and December 1992, arguing that Gaidar \u201cunderstood the strategic risks better than I did and I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaidar warned in his 2006 book, \u201cDeath of Empire\u201d of Putin\u2019s desire for empire: \u201cIt\u2019s not difficult to convince society that a state that collapsed so suddenly can be just as quickly rebuilt. That\u2019s an illusion, a dangerous one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChubais was not a member of Putin\u2019s dwindling inner circle of hard-line security and military chiefs, known as the siloviki, or men of power. But his departure underscores the alarm felt by many in Russia\u2019s comfortable urban classes at Putin\u2019s war and his mounting witch-hunt for traitors and \u2018fifth columnists,\u201d The Washington Post stated.<\/p>\n<p>On March 16, Putin raged, \u201cAny people, and particularly the Russian people, will always be able to tell the patriots from the scum and traitors and spit them out like a midge that accidentally flew into their mouths.\u201d He continued, \u201cI am convinced that this natural and necessary self-cleansing of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to meet any challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, Arkady Dvorkovich, a former senior economic advisor to former President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and his one-time deputy,\u00a0also quit his role as chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/23\/putins-top-aide-chubais-reportedly-quits-opposing-ukraine-invasion.html\">CNBC<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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