Tatyana Dyachenko

Tatyana Dyachenko (Template:lang-ru) (b. 1960) (also Tatiana, also Diyachenko or Jachenko, now Yumashev) is a daughter of President Boris Yeltsin; she was trained in computer science. Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering.[1] A memoir written by Boris Yeltsin, as reported by the New York Times [2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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[5], 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.[6]

Dyachenko was married to Leonid Dyachenko, a businessman who was recently made CEO of Urals Energy, a company under investigation by the Putin government.[7] In 2001 Tatyana married her fellow presidential adviser Yumashev[8], and flew to London to have a baby.[9] Yumashev is the father-in-law of oligarch Oleg Deripaska.[10]

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

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