As part of the Rusnano investments, chairman Anatoly Chubais became a board member.
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Another possible target is Anatoly Chubais, who co-ordinated the tycoons' support for Mr Gusinsky this week.
Indeed, the Duma may be willing to co-operate with a reformer appointed to take Mr Chubais's place.
It includes Anatoly Chubais , who was first deputy prime minister until Boris Yeltsin sacked him last month.
Mr Chubais served for a time in Mr Yeltsin's government, and was the architect of its privatisation scheme.
In other words, Yeltsin agreed to get rid of Chubais, because he was so unpopular with so many people.
And Mr Chubais, far more so than Mr Gaidar before him, has placed good people strategically throughout the administration.
Mr Gaidar is an ally of Anatoly Chubais, Mr Yeltsin's chief of staff.
Mr Chubais's chastisement may well reflect shifting sympathies within the president's immediate entourage.
When Mr Yeltsin fell dangerously ill and underwent a heart bypass operation, Mr Chubais held the machinery of government together.
For the moment Mr Chubais has been kept on in government mainly as a nerve-steadier for creditors and financial markets.
Friends of Mr Chubais say that Mr Berezovsky whipped up the book scandal in revenge, using journalists in his pay.
Mr Yeltsin might have nipped the scandal in the bud by defending Mr Chubais publicly, but he chose to hold back.
Mr Chubais has since moved into government, leaving nobody in the presidency with anything like the same political and administrative nous.
The most prominent reformer in the previous Russian government, Anatoly Chubais, has been made chief executive of the country's electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems.
But in reality the tycoons who had helped carry Mr Chubais back to power were already squabbling with him and with one another.
But somewhere in the thick of it was Boris Berezovsky, reputedly the richest man in Russia, who cast himself afterwards as Mr Chubais's nemesis.
Three prominent Russian politicians -- current energy czar Anatoly Chubais, Finance Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and New Force leader Sergei Kirienko -- discussed their country's future.
Last week he proclaimed without warning a quite different, and much tougher, agenda urged on him by Anatoly Chubais, the leading reformer in the government.
But Mr Chubais has been stripped of his oversight of the finance ministry, and Mr Nemtsov has lost control of the fuel and energy ministry.
Without Mr Chubais's dynamism, guile and vision, the government may indeed drift: in a system of government where institutions are weak, strong individuals are essential.
Mr Yeltsin and Mr Chubais should also level with the public.
They also urged that Mr Chubais take over his campaign management.
Mr Chubais was removed from government because his support for economic rigour and reform had made him one of the most unpopular politicians in the country.
Some of its leading lights, like a former privatisation chief, Anatoly Chubais, and Yegor Gaidar, a free-market former prime minister, are keen supporters of Mr Putin's.
Especially since reformers led by Mr Chubais grasped the levers of government last spring, Russia's health has begun to improve more quickly, showing what determined leadership can achieve.
If that is not to be, Mr Yeltsin must find the right man to replace Mr Chubais, and then take up the cudgels on the new man's behalf.
When Mr Yeltsin was seriously ill for much of last year, his chief of staff, Anatoly Chubais, with that apparatus at his back, ran Russia in Mr Yeltsin's name.
Mr Chubais had pushed for Mr Berezovsky to be ejected from his job as deputy head of the presidential security council after the two had rowed over privatisation policy.
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