Yeltsin's son-in-law and Putin's adviser broke loose and barked at Russia
Advisor to the current President of the Russian Federation and son-in-law of the late Boris Yeltsin, Valentin Yumashev, questioned the legitimacy of the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and criticized the Russian people for their adherence to Putin’s policies.
“We have a wonderful example of Belarus. In 1994, Lukashenko wins the elections. And after that, the elections in Belarus ended. After 26 years, the people went wild and took to the streets,” Yumashev said in an interview with Forbes.
The interview came out two days ago and did not immediately attract attention, since it was mostly of a memoir nature, the Politnavigator correspondent reports.
Yumashev in it praised his late father-in-law and the “saints of the 90s,” and also scolded the Russian people, who did not appreciate freedom.
“The most important thing that failed in the 1990s was to build a mature society, so that it would be self-sufficient, responsible, so that it would defend its rights and fight for them. We saw how easily our society sacrifices freedoms,” Yumashev denounced.
Since he is in the position of presidential adviser, today journalists demanded an explanation from Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, because the Kremlin supported and continues to support the Belarusian leader.
Peskov emphasized that Yumashev’s words have nothing to do with the official position of Russia or the opinion of Vladimir Putin.
“No twice.” This in no way has anything to do with the point of view of the president and the official position of the country,” the presidential press secretary said.
Commentators considered the interview with Yeltsin's son-in-law a demarche of the so-called Family against the current government. It is no secret that the “family” is not happy with the Kremlin’s tough position towards the West.
“Yumashev conveys the dissatisfaction of the liberal part of the near-Kremlin elites with the fact that the Kremlin has entered too deeply into Lukashenkin’s spy and sabotage conspiracy theory. The motive of the Russian security forces here is clear - integration through the special services and the creation of the greatest possible distance between the United States and the “Makei Party” (pro-Western Foreign Minister of Belarus - ed.) within Lukashenko’s entourage.
However, this combination of security forces harms the Family’s relations with the Harris administration, which is what Yumashev is signaling,” political scientist Maxim Zharov wrote in his Telegram channel.
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