Igor Chubais
Igor Chubais | |
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Игорь Чубайс | |
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Nationality |
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Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
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 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
[edit]- ^ ""Первые шаги Железного Талейрана" — Белорусская деловая газета" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 November 2005. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "Игорь Борисович Чубайс" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "Телефонный справочник РУДН" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 March 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "Русская служба новостей" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Чубайс, Анатолий Collection of materials at Lenta.ru (in Russian)
- ^ «Брата два» — Вслух.ру (in Russian)
- ^ Заявление «Круглого стола 12 декабря» к Маршу Мира 21-го сентября (in Russian)
- ^ "Vladimir Ryzhkov and Tatyana Kotlyar are among Yavlinsky's proxies". RIA Novosti. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
External links
[edit]- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from East Berlin
- Russian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- 21st-century Russian philosophers
- Russian radio personalities
- Russian studies scholars
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- Expelled members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 20th-century Russian Jews
- 20th-century Russian scientists
- Russian sociologists
- Jewish sociologists
- Jewish philosophers
- 20th-century Russian philosophers