俄罗斯总统普京的经济顾问安德烈·伊拉里奥诺夫提交了辞呈。

    伊拉里奥诺夫在莫斯科说，他的这个决定是抗议经济政策和政权的改变。他的辞职并不令人惊讶。

    安德烈·伊拉里奥诺夫长期以来是克里姆林宫政治廊芜之下最敢言的批评者。他对某些政府政策的大声抗议让他给免除了很多项职务。

    过去六年，伊拉里奥诺夫一直担任普京总统的经济顾问，这是克里姆林宫少数有独立言论的职位之一。

    但是他现在也决定离开。

    在莫斯科举行的记者会上，伊拉里奥诺夫对国家前途的走向表示关注。

    他说，俄罗斯已经不再有政治上的自由。国家的经济政策和经济模式已经改变。

    他又说，这个国家现在已经有只顾本身利益的国家机构所管理。

    Presidential economic advisor Andrei Illarionov, the lone dissenter in the Kremlin on most aspects of its economic policy, has resigned, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.

    "I have tendered my resignation as a presidential economic advisor and handed it to my employer," Illarionov told a press conference in Moscow. "I think the decision will be approved."

    Illarionov, 44, who worked in the Russian government in the early 1990s, was appointed an adviser to Putin in 2000.

    Asked why he is leaving, Illarionov said, "As long as there wasthe opportunity to do and say something, I felt it was important to stay here (as advisor). Until recently, nobody put any limits on me to express my viewpoints. The situation has changed."

    There were several reasons behind his decision to quit, he added.

    Illarionov was stripped of his duties as envoy to the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations earlier this year after he described as "the scam of the year" steps by state-owned corporations to take over private companies, most notably the legal onslaught against the Yukos oil company.

    He also spoke out against the large amount of borrowing by state-owned companies, which exceeded Russia's foreign debt.