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69 Kostikov, Roman s prezidentom, 322. Most speculation about a supercoordinator fastened on the Security Council. Its founding secretary, Skokov, and Aleksandr Lebed, who directed it briefly in 1996, used it as a political bandstand, but its ability to coordinate was slight.

70 See Korzhakov, Boris Yel’tsin, 140–50, who says Yeltsin wanted the house to contain a common laundry and an apartment where all the residents would have social events (neither was built). Yeltsin’s daughter has said he “spent literally a couple of nights” at the flat between 1994 and 2000. Tat’yana D’yachenko, “Papa khotel otprazdnovat’ yubilei po-domashnemu” (Papa wanted to celebrate his birthday home-style), Komsomol’skaya pravda, February 1, 2001. Vladimir Shevchenko (Povsednevnaya zhizn’ Kremlya pri prezidentakh [The everyday life of the Kremlin under the presidents] [Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 2004], 36) describes the aversion to the house in the same terms Yeltsin in his memoirs used to describe his overexposure to Gennadii Burbulis: “Psychologically, it was very difficult and untenable to see and converse with the very same people at home and at work.”

71 Yel’tsin, Zapiski, 341.

72 According to Korzhakov, Yeltsin was “categorically against” admitting Chernomyrdin. Korzhakov convinced him, pointing out that several deputy premiers had been accepted. Aleksandr Korzhakov, Boris Yel’tsin: ot rassveta do zakata; poslesloviye (Boris Yeltsin: from dawn to dusk; epilogue) (Moscow: Detektiv-press, 2004), 35.

73 When I spoke to Berezovskii about Yeltsin, one of his opening points was that the president had acknowledged his worth by bringing him into the club. Berezovskii, interview with the author (March 8, 2002). Rybkin also spoke fondly about it, and a half-decade after its dissolution was still carrying a member’s card in his wallet (interview, May 29, 2001). The bylaws reserved expulsion for one offense only: betrayal (predatel’stvo), which was to be decided by unanimous vote of the members. When Korzhakov lost his job in June 1996, he was evicted from the club in simpler fashion. Chernomyrdin, a member at Korzhakov’s insistence, phoned him and told him not to come around any more. “There was nothing to do. I packed up my things and went to exercise somewhere else.” Korzhakov, Boris Yel’tsin, 36.

74 Quotation from Valentin Yumashev, fourth interview with the author (January 22, 2007). Membership figure from Shamil’ Tarpishchev, Samyi dolgii match (The longest match) (Moscow: VAGRIUS, 1999), 294.

75 Yurii Petrov, first and second interviews with the author (May 25, 2000, and February 1, 2002).

76 Yeltsin emphasized his unhappiness at Petrov’s tactics in Zapiski, 297.

77 Quotation from Yel’tsin, Marafon, 257.

78 Huskey, Presidential Power in Russia, 58–59.

79 In addition to three or four other policy-specific assistants, the group included service providers such as Yeltsin’s protocol chief, head of chancery, and speech writers. The guitar-strumming Lev Sukhanov, who began with Yeltsin in Gosstroi in 1988, remained until 1997. His interest in the occult made him a marginal presence in his last several years in the Kremlin.

80 Baturin et al., Epokha, 210. Although Filatov’s organization was much bigger, the physical setup privileged Ilyushin. Filatov had his office in Kremlin Building No. 14 and Ilyushin his in Building No. 1, several doors from Yeltsin.

81 For example, on the morning commute with Yeltsin, Korzhakov noted the first secretary’s comments about stores they had inspected along the way. He would then telephone the party secretary for trade and services, Alla Nizovtseva, with a report. Nizovtseva, says Korzhakov, did not object to these calls, but Viktor Ilyushin, then the senior aide to Yeltsin in the gorkom, did object and accused Korzhakov of sticking his nose in other people’s business. Ilyushin was further annoyed when Korzhakov and Yeltsin developed their friendship in the summer of 1986. “He became more and more nervous when Boris Nikolayevich assigned me business falling outside the jurisdiction of the guard service.” Korzhakov, Boris Yel’tsin, 63.

82 Aleksandr Korzhakov, interview with the author (January 28, 2002).