Who is Anatoly Chubais, the highest official to cut Kremlin ties since Ukraine invasion?

Anatoly Chubais, one of the economic reformers in the years after the Soviet Union and author of Russia’s unpopular privatization program, quit as presidential envoy on sustainable development, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday, after reports he left the country because of his opposition to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Chubais, the most senior official to cut ties with the Kremlin after the invasion of Ukraine, was one the few 1990s Russian reformers who survived throughout Putin’s presidency, although he had little influence in recent years.