I’d been meaning for a long time to write something about Tatyana Yumasheva’s t_yumasheva blog, which is very popular right now. But there’s no need anymore. She’s said it all herself. Let me explain. My salary, as the director of the Yeltsin charitable foundation, is 10,000 rubles. My husband pays most of our day-to-day expenses. I married him in 2001. After leaving the Kremlin, Valentin worked for several companies. Every year he files an income declaration. Once, one of those declarations even made it into the newspapers. Someone stole a file from the Moscow tax service, and the tabloid press published information about the incomes of many well-known people, including Valentin. What he earns is enough for our everyday life. There are also more substantial expenses. For example, in the summer we used to travel to Italy or France together with all the children and grandchildren. Those major expenses are covered by the husband of Valya’s daughter—Oleg Deripaska. If Polina had married someone else, we would have spent our vacations differently. In Turkey, for example, or in Sochi. By the way, last year, because of the crisis, Oleg couldn’t rent a house on the Mediterranean. So we spent our vacation with all the children in Krasnodar Krai, in a stanitsa (a traditional Cossack village). Everyone liked it very much. The children learned to sing Cossack songs. And now they happily perform them at concerts. This year, it seems, we’ll be going to Krasnodar again. I think the children will learn some new songs. Here. Anyone who wants an even bigger laugh can click on the tag “Deripasko” in my LiveJournal. P.S. When I read this, I actually felt a little sorry for Deripaska. The joke “why did you hide money from your mother-in-law?” is going to follow him for the rest of his life.