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I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Anatoly Chubais

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Anatoly Chubais
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
Businessperson
Economist
Politician
Borysów
Anatoly Borisovich Chubays
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais
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Cities
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Petersburg
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I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
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During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.
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If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
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