A former senior Kremlin adviser who resigned shortly after in March Russian invasion of Ukrainewas hospitalized on Sunday, 31, in a European country in critical condition with symptoms of a rare neurological disorder. Anatoly Chubais67, developed sudden and increasing numbness in his hands and legs, his wife, Avodtia Smirnova, told Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak.
Chubais himself told Sobchak that he was diagnosed with the rare disease GuillainBarre, in which the body’s immune system attacks the nervous system. However, according to the journalist’s news channel, experts in “chemical protective suits” examined the room where he suddenly fell ill.
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Chubais was a prominent figure in Russian politics and an ally of the President. Wladimir Putin since the 1990s and accompanied privatizations during the transition period Russia to the market economy, became head of the Russian state power monopoly and took over its reins growla state technology company.
Anatoly Chubais and Vladimir Putin meet at the official residence in NovoOgaryovo on the outskirts of Moscow. Photo: Sputnik/Kremlin/Alexei Druzhinin/via Portal 11/07/2016
Most recently, he was Putin’s international climate ambassador. He left that post and Russian territory in March without giving a reason, although the decision is believed to have had something to do with his opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. He is one of the highestranking Russian officials to have resigned from Putin’s government since February.
The current location of Anatoly Chubais has not been published.
It is unclear what became of him, although news of his sudden illness has drawn attention to a number of episodes in which Kremlin opponents were poisoned.
The opposition politician Alexei Navalni was poisoned with the chemical warfare agent Novichok in 2020. 2015 the opposition politician Vladimir KaraMurza also suffered from symptoms of poisoning.
Alexander Litvinenkoa former agent of the FSB the successor agency to the KGB died in London in 2006 of radioactive polonium 210 poisoning.