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...gets back to work. In any case the surgery is the most important step in ending the state of suspended political animation that has gripped the Kremlin since late June, when Yeltsin fell ill, exhausted by the campaign and drained by the stress of firing his closest aide, Alexander Korzhakov...
...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 as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure. Her enemies--particularly Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former chief bodyguard, and the ousted national security adviser Alexander Lebed--complain loudly that Chubais is manipulating Dyachenko. In a recent interview, Korzhakov claimed that Chubais prepares key documents that Dyachenko then persuades her ailing father to sign. Lebed remarked scornfully in another recent interview that like any woman...
...forever to place his signature on the decree dismissing Lebed. He made no reference to the mutiny allegations. Instead he complained that Lebed was not a team player and referred angrily to the new political alliance that Lebed has formed with the disgraced former chief of presidential security, Alexander Korzhakov...
...thing Lebed's many enemies are pinning their hopes on is that he will finally sully his squeaky-clean image because of his new alliance with that other out-of-work general, Alexander Korzhakov. Korzhakov is not viewed as either clean or an outsider. He is widely alleged to be corrupt, and is a muddied Kremlin infighter. But during his postdismissal press conference, Lebed strongly defended Korzhakov as a "slandered Russian general." He borrowed some of Korzhakov's language and analysis, describing Chubais disparagingly as Russia's "regent" who had deliberately undermined Yeltsin's health by pushing the President...
...hint that Chernomyrdin will be a prime target of their planned anticorruption campaign. Both, however, are deeply wary of Anatoli Chubais, the new chief of the presidential staff. An ambitious, tough-minded proponent of privatization, Chubais in turn shares with his two rivals a strong antipathy toward General Alexander Korzhakov, who, though fired from his position as presidential security chief in June, remains one of Yeltsin's closest confidants and cannot be counted...