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...must approve the President's nominee and will almost certainly go along with Kiriyenko. The communists who dominate the parliament are complaining that he is too young and too inexperienced. But they are expected to accept him in due course. If they reject the President's choice three times, Yeltsin can dissolve parliament and call new elections. Most members of the Duma will not want to risk their jobs on the issue, so they might vote against Kiriyenko once or twice, then accept...
...Yeltsin's choice of a young newcomer implies, of course, that he intends to be the boss and that it matters little who is Prime Minister. That could be a bad thing for a Russia that desperately needs continuity and leadership. For years Yeltsin's bursts of energy have been followed by illnesses and disappearances, vacations and prostration. He seems to have no reserves of stamina left, and the breakdowns are coming more frequently now. After he ousted the government last week, he tried to pump himself up again for a summit session with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French...
From the very start of Boris Yeltsin's rule, his doorkeepers have had an outsize importance in running Russia. Despite Yeltsin's early populism, he has always mistrusted others and tended toward reclusiveness. These weaknesses have increased with his growing ill health. And last week's purge of his government has redoubled the importance of the two people closest to the President: chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko...
...forceful political figure. "His role is enormous," says Boris Berezovsky, banker and power broker with close ties to both the chief of staff and the daughter. "He enjoys the President's total confidence." Another influential figure in the world of business and politics says Yumashev was crucial in modifying Yeltsin's original plans for last week's reshuffle, although exactly what he did remains secret...
Yumashev is an unlikely eminence grise. A rumpled, 40-year-old ex-journalist, he began working for Yeltsin in the late '80s. He avoids cameras and interviews, and those who know him say he is amiable, tough and determined. His relationship with Yeltsin is said to be almost as close as son to father. He works closely with Dyachenko, 38, whom Berezovsky describes as "the genetic copy of her father," quiet but very observant...