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Newsweek: Boris Yeltsin's Former Chief of Staff '99 Percent Certain' Vladimir Putin Will Not Be Russia's President in Five Years
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want to stay in power beyond the end of his current term and will have stepped down by 2024, the chief of staff to Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin has predicted.
Valentin Yumashev was a senior aide to Yeltsin in the waning years of the latter's time in office. On Friday, he spoke about Yeltsin and his successor Putin at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in eatsern Russia, The Moscow Times reported.
Yumashev—who is married to one of Yelstin's daughters—has also acted as an unpaid adviser to Putin for 18 years. The two presidents were close allies, and Putin's first act upon taking office was to sign an immunity order for any criminal charges that might be levelled at Yeltsin.
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WNU Editor: I also believe that Russian President Putin will announce his retirement near the end of this term. There are some more interesting tidbits of information on Putin from this Moscow Times report .... ‘He Tried to Fire Putin Twice’: Yeltsin’s Chief of Staff Remembers the 1990s (Moscow Times).
