Anatoly Chubais left the Russian government on January 16 the same way he served it for over four years, with quiet class.
“I hope this has to do only with one individual, not a whole economic policy,” the reformer remarked, tendering a resignation already ordered by president Boris Yeltsin.
The future of sound economic policy is far from clear, however. As head of the State Property Committee and later first vice-premier, Chubais quietly endured the slanders of every major post-Soviet blowhard from Ruslan Khasbulatov to Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
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