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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...
...defection 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...
...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...
...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...
...Valentin Dinu '99 said that he was particularly excited about the Eliot dance. "It's a good place to bring a date," he said...