Brezhnev’s Son-in-Law Loses High Position
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MOSCOW — Yuri M. Churbanov, son-in-law of the late President Leonid I. Brezhnev, has lost his job as first deputy interior minister and been dropped to lower rank, a ministry official said Thursday.
Churbanov, 48, is married to Brezhnev’s daughter Galina, whose name was mentioned in a bribery scandal leaked to the Western press three years ago.
The Interior Ministry duty officer, who would not give his name, told a reporter that Churbanov was demoted in December from the post he had held since February, 1980, when his father-in-law was in power. He declined to be more specific.
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