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...years he kept Boris Yeltsin in his sights. But now the President's former bodyguard and top adviser, ALEXANDER KORZHAKOV is taking aim at his ex-boss. In Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, he depicts Yeltsin as a vodka-swilling wreck of a man. (He's even selling off the family album--his snapshots of Yeltsin hanging out in Sochi.) One unsubstantiated secret he claims: when Yeltsin sent in tanks against his foes in Russia's White House in 1993, he celebrated before the battle was won in what Korzhakov says was his usual fashion: by getting thoroughly soused...
TULA, Russia: Six months after he was ousted in a Kremlin power struggle, former Yeltsin bodyguard and right-hand man Alexander Korzhakov has returned to power and is threatening to uncover a dark history of Kremlin corruption. Korzhakov's election to parliament, which gives him the added benefit of immunity from prosecution, gives him a significant base to work against archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press...
Chubais has dismissed the recording as a fabrication of his enemies. It was indeed reportedly leaked to the media by an ally of his chief nemesis, General Alexander Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former security chief. But Western diplomats who have studied the transcript say it rings true...
...privatization nearly destroyed Chubais. After disastrous reverses in the December 1995 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin fired his deeply unpopular Minister, but Chubais got back into the thick of things much faster than expected. Presidential elections were scheduled for the summer of 1996, and Yeltsin's popularity was at rock bottom. Korzhakov and other intimates urged him to postpone the elections and declare a state of emergency. Yeltsin was tempted, but in mid-March consulted several political figures, including Chubais. His passionate arguments against that course swayed Yeltsin and led the President to put Chubais in charge of the campaign...
Dyachenko's influence dates back to last March, when Yeltsin, his popularity rating in single digits, rejected calls from Korzhakov and others to postpone the elections and decided instead to try what seemed to be the impossible: go all out to win. He dumped the drinking cronies who were botching his re-election bid and turned to the tough, hard-nosed Chubais. He also began spending more time with his family, a source close to Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves...