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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...
...Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves the analytical group. In addition to Chubais and Dyachenko, the group included the head of Russian Independent Television, Igor Malashenko, and Yeltsin's chief aide, Viktor Ilyushin. The President's daughter was no figurehead, her colleagues recall. "She's very bright, she learns fast, and she retains everything she has learned," says one. She also played a pivotal role during the campaign: it was Dyachenko who took bad news to her father and told him exactly...
...worked too well. Today, with the President hospitalized for ever lengthening preoperative tests, power is divided three ways: the presidential administration, headed by the young, ambitious and abrasive Anatoli Chubais; Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin; and national security chief Alexander Lebed. Lebed and Chernomyrdin have presidential ambitions. Chubais, whose role in the privatization of Russian industry made him deeply unpopular, has no hope of winning the presidency but would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready...
...successful challenger for Kremlin ascendancy. But he is not the only aspirant. Anatoli Chubais, the economic reformer who is the President's chief of staff, has stayed out of the Chechen mess while he cements his own powers as "regent" over all presidential decrees and appointments. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has the constitutional right to succeed Yeltsin in the event of his incapacity or death, seems to have formed a powerful alliance with Chubais...
...also returned 16 Russian prisoners of war. The pullout is taking place under the terms of an agreement brokered last week by security chief Alexander Lebed, and rebel forces are also supposed to withdraw from some areas of the city. Lebed, who is in Moscow after briefing Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress in Chechnya, hoped to meet with Boris Yeltsin, but the President snubbed him and left for vacation instead. Yeltsin has reviewed a written report from Lebed, but has not yet commented on its merits. Yeltsin two weeks ago gave the former general sweeping authority over federal...