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Valentin Yumashev

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Yumashev.

Valentin Yumashev
Валентин Юмашев
Yumashev in 2015
Kremlin Chief of Staff
In office
11 March 1997 – 7 December 1998
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byAnatoly Chubais
Succeeded byNikolay Bordyuzha
Personal details
Born (1957-12-15) 15 December 1957 (age 66)
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouses
Irina Vedeneyeva
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(divorced)​
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(m. 2001)​
Children2

Valentin Borisovich Yumashev (Russian: Валентин Борисович Юмашев; born 15 December 1957) is a Russian journalist,[1][2] politician and businessman-developer, who is the son-in-law of former President Boris Yeltsin and a member of his inner circle. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[3]

He was Editor-in-Chief of Ogonyok from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, he was appointed adviser to President Boris Yeltsin for public relations. In March 1997, Yumashev succeeded Anatoly Chubais in the powerful position of the Chairman of the Presidential Executive Office. In December 1998, he was dismissed from that position.[4] He now works in real estate development.

Biography

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Valentin Yumashev was born 15 December 1957 in Perm. His family moved to the Moscow region when he was sixteen.[5]

He entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University but did not finish his studies.[6] In 1976, he started working as a courier at the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. A year later, Yumashev was drafted into the army.[7]

In 1996, Yumashev was appointed advisor to the president on interaction with the mass media.[8]

In 1997–1998, he served as head of the presidential administration, succeeding Anatoly Chubais.[9]

In 1999, Yumashev allegedly initiated the appointment of Vladimir Putin as prime minister of the Russian Federation.[10][11][12]

News of Yumashev's resignation, in April 2022, from an unpaid post as adviser to Vladimir Putin, became widely known at the end of May 2022.[13][14][15]

Valentin Yumashev is also known as a co-author of two books with Boris Yeltsin: Against the Grain: An Autobiography and The Struggle for Russia. Yumashev talks about it in the book The age of Berezovsky by Petr Aven. Yumashev recalls: "Boris Nikolayevich had a very strict rule forbidding his family members to speak about politics <...> I could talk politics with him because we were working on his books".[16][17]

Family

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From his first marriage with Irina Vedeneyeva, he has a daughter, Polina. In 2001, Polina married Oleg Deripaska; they divorced in 2019.[18]

Yumashev and his second wife Tatyana Yumasheva (daughter of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin) own half of the Imperia Tower in "Moscow International Business Center" and half of the business center of "CITY" (49.58% of shares).[19]

It was reported that he, along with his wife and their daughter, have been citizens of Austria since 2009.[20]

References

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  1. ^ Klebnikov, Paul (15 September 2001). Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-0-15-601330-7. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  2. ^ Reddaway, Peter; Glinski, Dmitri (2001). The tragedy of Russia's reforms: market bolshevism against democracy. US Institute of Peace Press. pp. 495–. ISBN 978-1-929223-06-0. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  3. ^ О присвоении квалификационного разряда Юмашеву В.Б. (Decree 246) (in Russian). President of Russia. 17 March 1997.
  4. ^ Szászdi, Lajos F. (2008). Russian civil-military relations and the origins of the second Chechen war. University Press of America. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-7618-4037-4. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Валентин Юмашев" (in Russian). 24smi.org. 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  6. ^ Виктория Колганова (30 May 2022). "Юмашев покинул пост внештатного советника Путина" (in Russian). kommersant.ru. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Юмашев, Валентин Борисович" (in Russian). tass.ru. 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Биография Валентина Юмашева" (in Russian). ria.ru. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Валентин Юмашев назначен советником Владимира Путина на общественных началах" (in Russian). interfax.ru. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  10. ^ Мария Бондаренко (18 December 2019). "Юмашев раскрыл роль Кудрина и Чубайса в назначении Путина" (in Russian). rbc.ru. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  11. ^ Жанна Немцова (18 December 2019). "Валентин Юмашев: Путина нашел не я" (in Russian). dw.com. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  12. ^ Илья Жегулев (11 March 2019). ""Я считал себя ответственным за Путина"" (in Russian). meduza.io. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Exclusive: Yeltsins son-in-law quits as putin advisor sources". www.reuters.com. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Yeltsin's Son-In-Law Quits Post As Kremlin Adviser, Severs Another Link To Reformist Era". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 31 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Adviser who helped Vladimir Putin rise to power quits". The Sydney Morning Herald. 31 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Время Березовского" [The age of Berezovsky] (Text online). Corpus. 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Against the Grain: An Autobiography" (Text online). Times books. 1994. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Валентин Юмашев: "Мы глотнули свободы и отравились ею"" [Valentin Yumashev: "We took a sip of freedom and poisoned ourselves with it"]. mk.ru (in Russian). 31 January 2011. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  19. ^ "Tower Yumasheva. Half of Imperia Tower in the "Moscow City", and half managing the business center of the "CITY" belong to the Cyprus Valtania. The name comes from "Valea + Tani", explain the sources of "Vedomosti"". «Vedomosti» (in Russian). 7 June 2011. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  20. ^ "RBK: Yeltsin's daughter T.Yumasheva became a citizen of Austria". top.rbc.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
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