RUSSIA:WHERE IS TATIANA ?

RUSSIA:WHERE IS TATIANA ?

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

 

Good Times :former President Boris Yeltsin now deceased sits with his family, from left: wife Naina Yeltsin, son-in-law Valery Okulov, son-in-law Leonid Diyachenko, granddaughter Katya, daughter Yelena, grandson Boris, granddaughter Masha and daughter Tatiana Dyachenko.

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Boris Yeltsin was old ,frail and very sick and not better than a breathing cadaver but the Russian nation needed to scout for replacement.

Ms Tatiana Yeltsin now Tatiana Yumashev  ,who was her father’s administrative  officer and special assistant at The Kremlin in Moscow,Russia as the family wielded power and affluence as at then was chosen to look for who steps into daddy’s big shoes by the first family

So the first family in Russia decided to coopt Mr Boris Berezovsky ,probably one of the richest Russians of his day at the time into their plans for succession with Tatiana to do the entire work.

Other big names like Roman Abrahamovich,The Georgean :Badri Patarkatsishvili,Moscow Mayor ,Vladmir Gusinsky all joined the plot to get a stooge to cover up their tracks  as far as the oligarchy were concerned.

Highly influential Godfather of the Kremlin ,Boris Berezovsky was given the task to woo a reluctant spy chief,Vladmir Putin into the plan that will eventually help to protect the Russian elite.

However ,they under estimated the inner resolve and steel of a Mr Putin and as soon as he came to power through the money of this people he started to assert himself while taking out his benefactors one after the other.

In a no holds barred literary thriller :The News Ooffice Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria is now in possession of Ben Mezrich’s Once upon a time in Russia ,a book that chronicles the rise of Mr Vladmir Putin from cradle to power as Russia’s President.

In the 279 paged literary master piece ,it was gathered that the decision by Auto mogul ,Berezovsky to cut Putin to size after reading the latter’s handwriting on the wall led to a lot of terrible consequences for the business man who eventually committed suicide.

According to the book which hit the market worldwide in December,2015,,Berezovsky had felt that since he helped in no small way to putting Yeltsin and Putin in office  and in addition to that helping to install another President in Georgia with his deep pocket then he actually deserved some level of respect for his accomplishments.

It was discovered that his decision to use Russian Public Television [O.R.T.]in which he owned 49 percent as a tool to fighting Putin eventually led to a backlash which led to his running to London,United Kingdom on political exile to escape criminal prosecutions and persecution at home:Russia.

It was uncovered in the book that the Russian Presidency was particularly angry with  Berezovsky for using the media through his television to blackmail President Yeltsin over the kursk submarine accident in the Barent Sea.

This reporter noted in the book that all those who had the guts to look Mr Putin in the eyes eventually ended up somehow in a body bag kept in the morgue   for eventual burial save for Roman Abrahamovich who understood earlier warnings from Putin not to get himself involved in politics  hence faced his private business squarely.

President Vladmir Putin of The Russian Federation was described in the book as a brilliant in the book as a brilliant, icy cold, strong willed character who hardly ever talks hence unpredictable aside from other qualities like loyalty, efficiency and strength.

The book says:”At the time,Berezovsky had needed some aid in setting up a car dealership in Saint Petersburg and the Mayor of the city had handed him over to his deputy,a former KGB officer by the name Vladmir Putin”

“Berezovsky had been impressed by his efficiency and at a dinner party he had learned a bit about the man’s background”

“a child of poverty like so many in Russia ,Putin had grown up for a time in community apartment ,he had not been a wonderful student but he was an impressive athlete who had gone on to become a Judo champion “

“After stints studying law and language, he had then put in over 16 years of service as an agent with the KGB,he had been stationed in  Germany where he had gotten married ,had a couple of daughters  and then returned home to work at the University of Saint Petersburg for a former teacher who later became the mayor”

“in 1991,When Yeltsin took over power and communism fell ,he left the KGB and his sudden ascension to the Head of FSB had come on the heels  of being brought to Moscow by Yeltsin and the family”

The Russian Federation has been in the news in the last one year over what some believed was its interference in the electioneering process in the United states of America but this it has repeatedly denied very strongly as it was accused of hacking  

Tatiana Yeltsin graduated from MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in 1983.^{[citation needed]} She then worked at the Salyut Design Bureau and later at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994.^[1]

Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering.^[2] A memoir written by Yeltsin, as reported by the New York Times ^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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,^[6] 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.^[7]

Dyachenko and Yumashev provided editorial assistance in preparing the last volume of her father's memoirs, Midnight Diaries.^[8]

Personal life

Dyachenko was married to Alexey Dyachenko, a businessman who was recently made CEO of Urals Energy, a company under investigation by the Putin government as of 2008.^[9] In 2001, Tatyana married her fellow presidential adviser Valentin Yumashev,^[10] and flew to London to have a baby.^[11] Yumashev is the father-in-law of oligarch Oleg Deripaska.^[12] Tatyana is a close friend of another multi-billionaire, Roman Abramovich.^[13]