Word: voloshin
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...Kremlin's election strategists, orchestrators of the anti-Fatherland campaign, keep well out of the public eye. They include chief of staff Alexander Voloshin; Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana; former dissident turned political consultant Gleb Pavlovsky; and two businessmen and Yeltsin-family favorites, Alexander Mamut and Roman Abramovich. Much of the war has been waged by proxy on TV, with nasty Sunday-night news battles setting the tone. On ORT, a state-owned network that is largely controlled by Yeltsin supporter Boris Berezovsky, news anchor Sergei Dorenko bludgeons home the idea that Luzhkov is a murderer, a crook, a hypocrite. Yevgeny...
...presidential vote next July, was a dangerous move that could discredit the Kremlin, the government and Russia in general. But Chubais was not even granted an audience with Yeltsin. His former place, that of the man closest to the presidential ear, was taken. In it sat Alexander Voloshin, Yeltsin's chief of staff and the public face of the clique of confidantes that now surrounds the President, an inner circle known in the Russian press as "the Family." The other core Family members are Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and Voloshin's predecessor, Valentin Yumashev, a former journalist who ghostwrote...
Stepashin, meanwhile, had turned coy about his own presidential ambitions. Like Primakov before him, he had become too popular for the Kremlin's liking. Over the weekend, as polls showing Stepashin pulling even with Luzhkov landed on Voloshin's desk, and militant separatists in the Caucasus reappeared on Russian TV screens, the Family gathered and Yeltsin pulled the trigger. "Stepashin made no major mistakes," says a Kremlin aide. "He simply failed to become the good dictator...