Anatoli Chubáis, who opposed the war from the beginning, suffered a sudden immune imbalance
Although his environment assures that his state of health improves and that there are no signs of poisoning, according to the Russian agency TASS, the emblematic head of the “privatization plan” of the Boris Yeltsin era, Anatoli Chubais, 67, is still hospitalized after suffer a sudden immune imbalance. Until the end of March, Chubais was the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international organizations, but, due to his dissent from the war against Ukraine, he left the post and fled abroad, to Turkey as first destination.
The information about the hospitalization of the Russian businessman was provided by the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Anatoli Sobchak, now deceased and mentor of the current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Ksenia Sobchak assured through Telegram that it was Chubáis himself and his wife Avdotia Smirnova who informed her of her illness.
At the time of admission to the ICU of a European clinic that the Italian press places in Sardinia, his condition, according to Sobchak, “was very unstable and he had difficulty moving his limbs.” Chubáis reportedly said he was diagnosed with “Guillain-Barré syndrome with a moderate prognosis.” In any case, the doctors who treated him examined him in the room wearing protective suits against dangerous chemical substances.
On the World Health Organization (WHO) website, Guillain-Barré syndrome is described as a “rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system.” The syndrome can affect anyone, but it is more common in adult males. Most people make a full recovery even in the most severe cases, but Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the WHO, can be fatal. In recent months there have been mysterious ‘suicides’ of top Russian businessmen or deaths in strange circumstances or in accidents. They all had in common their opposition to the war against Ukraine.
“Doesn’t work for us”
Chubáis was at the head of the Russian technology consortium ‘Rosnano’ until December 2020 and was then appointed Putin’s representative before international organizations. The anonymous interlocutor quoted this Monday by TASS has stated that “Chubáis went to the hospital after showing symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Now his condition has improved »and, although he still has motor difficulties, he can speak normally. His brother Igor told the Russian television channel ‘Zvezdá’ on Sunday that “he is improving, everything will be fine, don’t worry. The guy is strong, he does not have any chronic disease ».
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, for his part, spoke of “sad news” when referring to the businessman and wished him “a speedy recovery.” Peskov insisted that the Russian Presidency “does not know the details of what happened” with Chubais. In May, Putin’s spokesman declared that the Kremlin had neither the capacity nor the desire to follow up on what was happening with his former adviser and his flight abroad. “He no longer works for us,” Peskov stressed then.
Chubáis was precisely the one who recommended the name of Putin to Yeltsin to work in the Kremlin Administration, his first job in Moscow after leaving the mayor of St. Petersburg after losing the Sobchak elections. The oligarch was the most influential of a group of Russian economists who tried to lead the Soviet system’s transition to capitalism. He privatized and sold some of Russia’s largest industrial groups, operations from which he profited.
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