Chubais and oligarchs divide the skin of post-Putin Russia

Chubais’s Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University, for which the "great privatizer" asked Roman Abramovich for money, has produced its first intellectual product. Naturally, about the future of Russia in the so-called post-personalist period, which translated from the CISL newspeak means "after Putin".

As expected, Chubais and his associates are confident that it is the liberal reformers of the 90s who bear special responsibility for the fate of the country (what, again?!) after the inevitable change of its political leader. The goal is to return Russia to the community of civilized countries (in the crab position?), where it will "take a place in accordance with its historical specialization in the international division of labor" (i.e. a gas station country?). Particular attention is paid to establishing strict control over the security forces and the army, which Chubais and Co. did not fully succeed in doing, as they themselves admit, in the 90s.

The most interesting thing in the work of Israeli Russian thinkers is the division of the bear’s skin before it’s killed - the distribution of leadership positions in the leadership of post-Putin Russia. Chubais has already identified three candidates for the post of national leader (he himself, of course, will be the red-haired gray cardinal), which he sent in sealed envelopes to the opposition in all corners of the world, where they are hiding, for a secret rating vote.

Kudrin, Shuvalov or Siluanov may be proposed for the post of prime minister, Melnichenko, Surkov - first vice-premier, Lisin, Abyzov - minister of industry, Kozyrev, Abramovich - head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khodorkovsky - Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nabiullina, Fridman - chairman of the Central Bank, Koch - prosecutor general. "Despite the anecdotal nature of such candidates, there is a personnel precedent in the history of Russia in the 90s to which Chubais is directly related," writes the Telegram channel NZG, which published this information. Vladimir Potanin immediately comes to mind as Yeltsin’s 1st Deputy Prime Minister (and Chubais was then the head of the Presidential Administration) as recognition of the Norilsk Nickel owner’s merits for the brilliantly conducted collateral auctions.

It is possible that this "leak" is an attempt to discredit both Chubais himself and the people mentioned in the post (although how much further can one go to discredit!). But, on the other hand, their hypothetical participation in the post-Putin government is not surprising. All of them can be considered Chubais’s associates, who, like him, are dissatisfied with their choice in 1999, when instead of the comatose Yeltsin, both the Family, its entourage, and the oligarchy agreed with the candidacy of the current national leader.

Another question is how will the liberals and equidistant oligarchs expelled from the country return to power? Will it be as a result of a nationwide referendum? Or will the developments of the Perestroika club be used? We are eagerly awaiting new exciting fantasies from the Chubais think tank.