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| | The Jamestown Foundation |
 | | The way Sergei Stepashin's government was formed has demonstrated that the country today is being run, openly and cynically, by a "family politburo," consisting of the president's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko, his former chief of staff Valentin Yumashev, his current chief of staff Aleksandr Voloshin, and two oligarchs--Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. |
 | | Stepashin was only able to win this round by making concessions: For the sake of a second first deputy, he dropped the plan of transferring his beloved Interior Ministry into the safe hands of one of his deputies, Vladimir Strashko or Vladimir Kolesnikov, and consented to bestowing this post on another "Berezovsky man," Vladimir Rushailo. |
 | | Sergei Stepashin's first choice, which he announced publicly, for his second first deputy was Aleksandr Zhukov, the chairman of the Duma Budget and Taxes Committee. |
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