Igor Chubais | |
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| Игорь Чубайс | |
 Chubais in 2017 | |
| Born | (1947-04-26)26 April 1947 (age 78) |
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| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
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| Era | Contemporary |
| Region | Russia |
| Institutions | Peoples' 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 subjectRussian 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 thePeoples' 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 politicianAnatoly 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 theRusso-Ukrainian War, theannexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the Russian military support toseparatists in Eastern Ukraine.[7]
In the2018 Russian presidential election, he was a confidant ofGrigory Yavlinsky.[8]
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