Tatyana Yumasheva

Summary

Tatyana Borisovna Yumasheva (Russian: Татьяна Борисовна Юмашева, formerly Dyachenko, Дьяченко, née Yeltsina, Ельцина; born 17 January 1960) is the younger daughter of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Naina Yeltsina. Since 2009, Yumasheva has been a citizen of Austria.[1]

Tatyana Yumasheva
Yumasheva in 2015
Advisor to the President of Russia
In office
1996–2000
Personal details
Born
Tatyana Borisovna Yeltsina

(1960-01-17) 17 January 1960 (age 64)
NationalityRussian
Spouse
    Vilen Khairullin
    (m. 1980; div. 1982)
    Leonid Dyachenko
    (m. 1987; div. 2001)
    (m. 2001)
Children3
Parents

Early life and education edit

She graduated from MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in 1983.[2][3] She then worked at the Salyut Design Bureau and later at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994.[4]

Career edit

Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering.[5] A memoir written by Yeltsin, as reported by The New York Times,[6] 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.[7] Boris Berezovsky and other oligarchs were often included in the group as well.

In 2000, her name came up during a corruption investigation, but no charges were brought.[8] She remained on the staff of Yeltsin's hand-picked successor Vladimir Putin, and was a key adviser to him during his 2000 election campaign,[9] but Putin dismissed her later that year.

She is portrayed in the 2003 satirical comedy Spinning Boris, based on the real experiences of U.S. political consultants in the 1996 campaign.[10]

She and Yumashev provided editorial assistance in preparing the last volume of her father's memoirs, Midnight Diaries.[11]

On 25 February 2022, Yumasheva criticised the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[12]

Personal life edit

In 1980, Yeltsina married fellow Moscow State University student, Vilen Ayratovich Khairullin. In 1981, they had a son, Boris. They divorced in 1982.[13]

In 1987, she married Leonid Yuryevich Dyachenko[14] (known as Alexei), a businessman, designer from Salyut Design Bureau , billionaire, and executive director of Urals Energy, a company under investigation by the Putin government as of 2008. [15] In 1995, they had a son, Gleb, before divorcing in 2001.

In 2001, Tatyana married her fellow presidential adviser Valentin Yumashev,[16] and flew to London to have a baby, daughter Maria.[17] Until 2018, Yumashev was the father-in-law of oligarch Oleg Deripaska.[18]

Tatyana is a close friend of another multi-billionaire, Roman Abramovich.[19]

Along with her husband and their daughter, she has been a citizen of Austria since 2009.[1][20]

Awards edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b RBK: Yeltsin's daughter T.Yumasheva became a citizen of Austria . top.rbc.ru (in Russian)
  2. ^ "Татьяна Юмашева" (in Russian). 24smi.org. 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ^ "100 влиятельных россиянок" (in Russian). kommersant.ru. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  4. ^ Kirillov, Vladimir (2002). "Khrunichev Center – Leader of the Russian Space Sector". Eksport Vooruzheniy (3). Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  5. ^ "Rescuing Boris". Time. 15 July 1996. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  6. ^ Tyler, Patrick E. (8 October 2000). "How Yeltsin Nearly Scuttled Democracy in Russia". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Russia's Puppet Master". Time. 23 August 1999. Archived from the original on 12 July 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  8. ^ Quinn-Judge, Paul (16 May 1999). Written at Moscow. "Survival Of The Fittest". Time. New York City: Time Warner. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  9. ^ Quinn-Judge, Paul (5 March 2000). "The Ice-Cold Strategy". Time. Time Warner. Archived from the original on 21 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  10. ^ Poniewozik, James (15 March 2004). "Television: Moscow on the Hustings". Time. Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  11. ^ Osnos, Peter (25 April 2007). "Mother Russia's Guiding Hand". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  12. ^ Roth, Andrew (25 February 2022). Written at Moscow. "Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 March 2022. And on Friday afternoon, Lisa Peskova, the daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, took to Instagram to post a simple message on a black background: #Нетвойне, or "No to war." So did Tatyana Yumasheva, the daughter of Boris Yeltsin.
  13. ^ Colton, Timothy J. (2008). Yeltsin: A Life. New York: Basic Books. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-465-01271-8.
  14. ^ Colton, Timothy J (2008). Yeltsin: A Life. New York: Basic Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-465-01271-8.
  15. ^ "Yumasheva Tatyana Borisovna / rutelegraf.com". rutelegraf.com. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  16. ^ Yeltsin Hunts for Fountain of Youth,| The Moscow Times (Russia)]
  17. ^ Yeltsin's daughter picks London for baby's birthplace. The Evening Standard (London)
  18. ^ "Due Diligence, Business Intelligence, Asset Retrieval, Debt Recovery in Europe, FSU, USA and worldwide". www.templetonthorp.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  19. ^ Franchetti, Mark (7 March 2010). "The Sober Truth Behind Boris Yeltsin's Drinking Problem". Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Sunday Times. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  20. ^ "Jelzin-Tochter hat österreichische Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten" [Yeltsin's daughter has received Austrian citizenship]. Der Spiegel (in German). 25 April 2013. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации от 09.07.1996 г. № 358-рп" (in Russian). kremlin.ru. Retrieved 19 February 2023.

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