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...message Yeltsin wanted to broadcast loudest last week was, I am still in power. He and a small group of relatives and close advisers that include his daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and his chief of staff Valentin Yumashev--dubbed "the Family" by Muscovites--may intend to keep him there as long as he is breathing. True, the Russian constitution says he cannot serve more than two terms, but Yeltsin expects the courts to rule next fall that his first term didn't count because he was elected under the old Soviet system...
Admiral Ivan Yumashev, made Russia's top sea dog last year when Stalin set up his Red navy as an independent branch of the Russian armed services, last week was out of a job. Reported Moscow: at 56, he "was released from duty at his own request." His successor: Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov...
...Enemy. The Russian navy, Sherman pointed out, is a "very powerful navy"-for Russia's special purposes. And it is growing. Fortnight ago the Russians announced the creation of a separate navy ministry under chunky Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev. His Soviet navy already has 270 submarines, many of the latest design. It is reportedly building its submarine force up to 1,000, and constructing three modern battleships, probably to be used as guided-missile ships...
...feeling of confidence and importance, free it from the influences of the better-established army and air force. The navy was reconstituted as a separate arm, independent of the War Ministry (army and air force). Named as head of the new Navy Ministry was handsome Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev, former commander in chief of the Soviet fleet...
...Admiral Yumashev was wrong on two counts: the islands had not "always belonged to Russia," and Russian forces did not win the Kuriles from the Japanese armed forces; Russia got the Kuriles (after VJ-day) in accordance with one of the Yalta deals...