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...ultimate symbol of state-sponsored corruption and cynical manipulation of power is the Yeltsin "Family." It includes Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko; his onetime chief of staff Valentin Yumashev; and a number of powerful financiers, including Boris Berezovsky. The group played a major role in engineering Yeltsin's retirement and Putin's rise. And though corruption allegations against the Family have disappeared from most front pages, the heat is still on. A Swiss prosecutor recently told a Russian newspaper that relatives and associates of Yeltsin's remain under investigation in his country...
Putin told Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline last Friday that he was bringing in, as investigators, former KGB colleagues "who are untarnished and have no connection with corruption." Still, the jury is out on the level of Putin's anticorruption zeal. Two prominent members of the Family, Dyachenko and Yumashev, are actively involved in his election campaign. But clouds seem to be thickening over the head of Berezovsky, the most unpopular and pugnacious of the so-called oligarchs. A belief is growing among Russia's political and business elite that Putin wants to destroy Berezovsky's political power. There...
...Putin's widespread popularity and his declared hardline against corruption bode well for Russia's future. Indeed, one of his next acts after covering Yeltsin's tracks was to remove Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, the recent subject of an investigation into allegations of bribery, from her Kremlin post as "image adviser" to the president. Along with Dyachenko, Putin fired several other members of Yeltsin's inner circle, who have also come under fire for corrupt practices, from their government positions. His promises of economic reform sit well with investors. The Russian stock market rose by about 20 percent...
Unity's creators--a small group of people in and around the "Family," as Yeltsin's aides and hangers-on are known--wanted a reassuringly predictable election. "Were you surprised by the results?" a reporter from the daily Kommersant asked Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter and aide and one of the most powerful figures behind the throne. "Come on," she replied. "What surprises? Everything was precisely calculated." The day after the elections, when other parties were crying foul or doing deals, a Unity official said there would be no party press conference. "We don't see the need," he explained...
...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 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...