Yeltsin’s son-in-law quits his post as Putin’s adviser after more than 20 years

Lyudmila Telen, first deputy director general of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center (Yeltsin Center), told international news agency Reuters that Yumashev left his post as Putin’s adviser last month.

“It was his initiative,” he briefly answered the question about the reasons for this decision.

Yumashev is a member of the Yeltsin Center Board of Trustees. The day after Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began on February 25, the Yeltsin Center called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities.”

“Realizing the full extent of our responsibility as citizens of the stronger side of the fraternal conflict, we call for an immediate cessation of hostilities,” the center said in a statement.

This phrase has now been removed from the organization’s website.

Yumashev was voluntarily an adviser to the President of Russia. Reuters calls Yumashev, 64, an “unpaid consultant”, citing non-payment by the government.

The politician has been in office for over 20 years. First time in Kremlin published Decree on the appointment of Yumashev as presidential adviser in the summer of 2018. Only after that, the Yeltsin Center’s press service announced that he had actually been working in this post for many years.

“Valentin Yumashev has been voluntarily advising the President for 18 years. The press service said, “Nothing has changed.”

This information was confirmed by the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, and later Yumashev himself. According to Peskov, the decrees on the reappointment of Yumashev “was before.” Peskov did not answer a question from RBC journalists explaining why they had not been aired earlier.

As Reuters noted, Yumashev played “little decision-making” as an adviser to Putin, but “was one of the few links between the Putin administration and the Yeltsin administration, the era of liberal reforms, and Russia’s openness to the West”.

“It was a symbolic position,” a source told RBC. Yumashev announced his resignation in late April – early May.

politician spokedoes not have a clearly defined set of issues for which he is responsible as a consultant.

“If questions arise that require my experience and knowledge, I always do my best,” Yumashev said of his work.

“Curator of journalists”, Yeltsin’s closest assistant. Yumashev’s history

Valentin Yumashev was born in Perm in 1957, as a teenager he moved with his mother to the Moscow region. She worked as a janitor at the family cottage of the writer Korney Chukovsky in the village of Peredelkino. He studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov, according to some sources, graduated from it, according to others, he studied at the correspondence department, but did not complete his education, and later hid this fact.

In 1979-1987 he worked for the popular newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda and Izvestia. In 1987 he began working in the journal Ogonyok, widely known in the USSR. The politician said working in journalism was a “good time” of his life.

“It was autumn 1987 when I arrived in Ogonyok. Every month there were new conquests of freedoms, new subjects that were impossible a month ago. It is impossible today, but in a month it can already be printed. And even though the censorship was still removing the material (at least once a month, the censorship removed my department’s material from the outgoing issue), it was still clear that these were already shake-ups of the regime, that the hurdles had been overcome.” remembered Yumashev.

Then she met Boris Yeltsin. Cooperation began when Yumashev, in his own words, secretly decided to make a documentary about Yeltsin. It was released in 1990 and some footage, such as Yeltsin’s tram ride, became widely recognized and used in other documentaries.

After that, Yumashev began to work closely with Yeltsin. He was his “literary assistant”, wrote several books about Yeltsin. He participated in the work of Yeltsin’s campaign center in the 1996 elections. After Yeltsin’s victory, he took over as presidential adviser on media relations. As Yumashev himself put it, he became “the curator of journalists, relatively speaking.”

In the spring of 1997 he headed the presidential administration. At the end of 1998, Yumashev voluntarily took the post of presidential adviser, and since then he has remained in this position almost constantly. in 1999 Left The position only returned in 2000, when Putin was elected Russia’s first president.

Since 2002, Yumashev has been married for the second time to Tatyana Dyachenko, the daughter of Boris Yeltsin.

A well-known Russian politician from the 90s, the former head of the presidential administration, Valentin Yumashev, resigned from his post as an adviser to the President of Russia. He took this position under Yeltsin and has held it almost uninterruptedly ever since. The reasons for Yumashev’s dismissal are unknown. Previously, the Yeltsin Center, of which Yumashev was on the board of trustees, opposed the military operation in Ukraine.



Source: Gazeta

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