Word: chernomyrdin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yeltsin will be out of action, and probably as remote as he has been up to now, until the New Year. As he recovers, he will rule largely through three people. His Prime Minister, the stolid Viktor Chernomyrdin, will present the administration's reassuring face--business as usual. His chief of staff, Anatoli Chubais, sardonically nicknamed the Regent by his enemies, will be the strategic powerhouse of the regime. And the key will be Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, who is the most trusted channel of political information to and from the President...
...week or so preceding the operation, the pro-Yeltsin media did their best to enhance Chernomyrdin's image, showing an avuncular, accordion-playing man of the people--unchanged by the enormous wealth that some specialists claim he has accumulated thanks to his connections with Russia's oil and gas industry. But when it comes to real political power, Chubais will probably retain the inside edge. In large part this will be because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged...
...what was seen at the time as a brilliant move by Yeltsin campaign organizer Chubais. Lebed took the job expecting to be both heir apparent and acting President. But other equally ambitious politicians--Chubais, who was named presidential chief of staff after the elections, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin--had no intention of handing over power. Lebed found himself increasingly hemmed in. His departure now gives him the chance he has been longing for: to portray himself as the rejected prophet, the man too honest for the Yeltsin administration...
Another politician preparing for the long haul is Luzhkov, 60. Yeltsin supporters say with grudging admiration that Luzhkov has already assembled an excellent public relations team. He is establishing alliances with regional leaders, speaking out on national issues and creating a powerful base for himself. Sources close to Chernomyrdin say Luzhkov is also trying to cut away at the Prime Minister's war chest by supporting moves to break Gazprom's oil-and-gas monopoly. Luzhkov's motives, a Chernomyrdin aide said last week, have little to do with devotion to free-market capitalism...
...what were until recently two key roles--head of the administration and senior aide to the President. His relations with Luzhkov are by his own admission "complex"--the two men have in fact been bitterly and publicly critical of each other. He has clearly been trying recently to clip Chernomyrdin's wings. Yet both men hope for his future support. For the time being, the power struggle among the President's men is taking place in the shadows. Most of the would-be contenders deny indignantly any thought of succeeding Yeltsin. But the operation is looming--his doctors are expected...