Yeltsin's son-in-law left the Kremlin. Experts expect large-scale personnel purges
Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left his position as an adviser to Vladimir Putin last month. This was reported by Reuters, citing two sources.
Thus, one of the sources, Lyudmila Telen, first deputy executive director of the Boris Yeltsin Center, a foundation in which Yumashev is a member of the board of trustees, told the agency that in April Yumashev resigned from the position of adviser in the Kremlin.
When asked why he left, she replied: “It was his initiative.”
Another source, on condition of anonymity, also confirmed that Yumashev ceased to be an adviser to the president in April.
Under Yeltsin, who was Russian president from 1991 to 1999, Yumashev was a Kremlin adviser and then head of the presidential administration. He is married to Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana. Since then, Yumashev has been considered one of the shadow lobbyists of Yeltsin’s “Family” at the Russian top.
Let us recall that in March, after the start of the SVO in Ukraine, Anatoly Chubais left the post of Vladimir Putin’s special representative for relations with international organizations and left Russia abroad.
Yumashev’s departure is also commented on on social networks.
“Let's go, let's go watersheds. Valentin Yumashev resigned from his position as adviser to President Putin. They write that this was after Chubais left abroad, but I would say that Chubais was a manager, and Yumashev was a strategist and conductor of the policy of the remnants of the Family. What does this mean? We will see an update on many personnel lines after the fall of the eastern group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass. And if this requires persecution of those who resist, then that will happen. The scale of events is similar to what happened in 2004 and later in relation to YUKOS,” says Russian political strategist Marat Bashirov.
“For eight years in a row, the top leadership of Russia was fed with misinformation, counting on the fact that things would not come to war, and “Minsk” would write everything off, and very little their names ceased to be a secret. Not all, of course, but some, and that’s already a lot. Some of the famous fled, some irreversibly fell out of favor, some were saved only by their absolute indispensability in some highly specific issues, and still others’ fate is seriously in question,” writes blogger and political consultant Lev Vershinin, who lives in Spain, describing perturbations in the Russian leadership after the start of the Northern Military District.
“Obligations to the late Yeltsin have been recognized as fulfilled. Next, the Family will face political emigration and expropriation of the assets remaining in Russia. The future of the Yeltsin Center is a big question,” says Sergei Mardan, a columnist for the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.
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