Word: yumashev
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...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 Yeltsin's memoirs. Days before the sacking, the trio drew up a list of candidate-heirs. But in the end, there was only one. Yeltsin wanted Putin...
...matter: a succession of aides have complained that he is loath to read. It is equally hard to persuade him to watch the TV news. Meanwhile the circle of people who have unfettered access to him is strikingly small. The circle consists of his former chief of staff Valentin Yumashev, who still wields enormous influence from the shadows; Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana; and very few others...
Viktor Aksyuchits, an aide to former Vice Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and one of Berezovsky's most outspoken critics, claims that the banker succeeded, as he has so often done before, by gaining intimate access to Yeltsin's closest advisers, chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They...
...suggests he feels Yeltsin's days are numbered. The rift could widen quickly: for weeks Berezovsky has been expressing polite, muted concern about Yeltsin's health. Now he may start saying what he knows from years of intimate relations with Yeltsin's family and presidential chief of staff VALENTIN YUMASHEV. The next thing to watch for are leaks in the Berezovsky-controlled media--which include Russia's biggest TV network--questioning the President's ability to rule, based on deep concerns about Yeltsin's declining mental faculties...
...have their hands full managing the President, but there may well be greater tests. Under the Russian constitution, only one person can declare the President unfit to rule: the President himself. But what if Yeltsin becomes incapable of understanding that it is time to go? Yumashev and Dyachenko will be the first to see if this happens, and they will have to decide what to do. "I want to hope that the President's health will not lead to a political crisis," Berezovsky says diplomatically. But, he adds, the pair "are paying due attention to the situation, and will respond...