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Igor Chubais
Игорь Чубайс
Chubais in 2017
Born (1947-04-26) 26 April 1947 (age 77)
Nationality
Alma materLeningrad State University
EraContemporary
RegionRussia
InstitutionsPeoples' Friendship University of Russia
Main interests
Philosophy, Russian studies


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]

References

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  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.
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