Growing List of Aides to Putin Are Quitting Over the War — Or Have Disappeared

Anatoly Chubais is but the latest in a growing list of top players in Moscow who have either expressed skepticism about the war or were forced out by Putin.

Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Chubais at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow November 7, 2016. Alexei Druzhinin/pool via AP

Modern Russia is different from the Shakespeare-era Denmark, but as the Bard observed thereof, something now is rotting in Moscow. The latest sign is that one of President Putin’s oldest allies, Anatoly Chubais, today announced his resignation and decamped his country. 

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