Michael McFaul @McFaul
Chubais and Putin knew each from the early 1990s in St Petersburg & the Sobchak era. Chubais helped Putin get a job in the Yeltsin govt. Chubais, Gref, Kudrin all worked with Putin hoping to advance liberal econ reforms from within which would the produce redemocratization. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org