Reuters: Yeltsin's son-in-law left his post as Putin's adviser in April

Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, left his role as an unpaid adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Yumasev did not respond to a request for comment sent to him by Reuters.

Lyudmila Telen, first deputy executive director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, a foundation where Yumashev is a board member, told Reuters that Yumashev stepped down from his Kremlin advisory post in April.

Asked why he left the role, she said, "It was his initiative."

Another person familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said Yumashev stopped being an adviser to the Russian president in April.

Under Yeltsin, who was Russia's president from 1991 to 1999, Yumashev was an adviser to the Kremlin and later the head of the presidential administration.

He is married to Yeltsin's daughter Tatjana.

He did not play a major role in decision-making as Putin's adviser, but he represented one of the Putin administration's few remaining links to Yeltsin's rule, a period of liberal reforms and Russia's opening to the West, according to Reuters.