Tatyana Dyachenko

Tatyana Dyachenko

Tatyana Dyachenko ( _ru. Татьяна Борисовна Дьяченко; born 1960; also Tatiana, also Diyachenko or Jachenko, now Yumashev) is a daughter of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin; she was trained in computer science. Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984833-3,00.html Rescuing Boris - Time ] ] A memoir written by Yeltsin, as reported by the New York Times [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60B15FE38580C7B8CDDA90994D8404482&n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fRussia%20and%20the%20Former%20Soviet%20Union How Yeltsin Nearly Scuttled Democracy in Russia - New York Times ] ] credited her with advising against "banning Communist Party, dissolving Parliament and postponing presidential elections" in 1996. She was particularly influential as Yeltsin recovered from heart surgery in late 1996. She became the keystone in a small group of advisors known as "The Family," although the others (Alexander Voloshin and Valentin Yumashev) were not Yeltsin relatives. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991786,00.html Russia's Puppet Master - TIME ] ] Boris Berezovsky and other oligarchs were often included in the group as well.

In 2000, Dyachenko's name came up during a corruption investigation, but no charges were brought. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,24834-2,00.html Survival Of The Fittest - TIME ] ] Dyachenko remained on the staff of Yeltsin's hand-picked successor Vladimir Putin, and was a key adviser to him during his 2000 election campaign [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,40340,00.html?iid=chix-sphere The Ice-Cold Strategy - TIME ] ] , but Putin fired her later that year.

Dyachenko was portrayed in the 2003 satirical comedy "Spinning Boris", based on the real experiences of American political consultants in the 1996 campaign. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993611,00.html Moscow on the Hustings - TIME ] ]

Dyachenko was married to Leonid Dyachenko, a businessman who was recently made CEO of Urals Energy, a company under investigation by the Putin government. [ [http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=allBreakingNews&storyID=2007-05-15T090631Z_01_L15356518_RTRIDST_0_URALSENERGY-INSPECTIONS-UPDATE-1.XML] Dead link|date=August 2008] In 2001, Tatyana married her fellow presidential adviser Yumashev [ [http://news.google.com/archivesearch/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1-0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbeam.com%2Fdoc%2F1P1-52338500.html%3Frefid%3Dgg_x_02&ei=MH1JRuSMEojG6wGqgLHyBQ&usg=__uN9N9gEJUjGxazwz7cWxLlxFr28= Yeltsin Hunts for Fountain of Youth, THE MOSCOW TIMES | Article from The Moscow Times (Russia) | HighBeam Research ] ] , and flew to London to have a baby. [ [http://news.google.com/archivesearch/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=0-0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbeam.com%2Fdoc%2F1G1-84451781.html%3Frefid%3Dgg_x_02&ei=MH1JRuSMEojG6wGqgLHyBQ&usg=__Dvt9H-n8x2UyY70wDWKfc-RM6Mo= Yeltsin's daughter picks London for baby's birthplace. | Article from The Evening Standard (London, England) | HighBeam Research ] ] Yumashev is the father-in-law of oligarch Oleg Deripaska. [ [http://www.templetonthorp.com/en/news252 Due Diligence, Business Intelligence, Asset Retrieval, Debt Recovery in Europe, FSU, USA and worldwide ] ]

Dyachenko and Yumashev provided editorial assistance in preparing the last volume of her father's memoirs, "Midnight Diaries". [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042402460.html Mother Russia's Guiding Hand - washingtonpost.com ] ]

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