Archyde.com, citing sources, reports that Valentin Yumashev, son-in-law of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, has resigned as an adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
The agency notes that it sent a request for comment to Yumashev, as well as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, but neither responded at the time of publication of the message.
Information about the dismissal of Yumashev Archyde.com was confirmed by Lyudmila Telen, one of the leaders of the Yeltsin Center. According to her, Yumashev left his post in April. When asked why he made such a decision, she could not answer in detail.
“It was his initiative,” Telen quoted the agency as saying.
A second source, who asked journalists not to name him, also confirmed that Yumashev left his position as Putin’s adviser in April.
In June 2018, the Kremlin website published a decree appointing Yumashev, who headed the presidential administration under Yeltsin in 1997-1998, as Putin’s adviser on a voluntary basis. However, soon the press secretary of President Peskov said that Yumashev had been an adviser to Putin before. “18 years,” Peskov said at the time, answering a related question.
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