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MP: Georgy, please tell me
what propagandists usually answer
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when we talk about Putin's
chic palaces and wineries?
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GA: They tell us that all this
does not belong to Putin.
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MP: Yes. Because, as we are told,
it cannot be Putin's.
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Putin and luxury palaces simply don't
match. It just doesn't interest him.
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Dmitry Kisilyov: Putin himself
does not need luxury as such.
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It's not cool for him. He wears suits
of the same cut, like a uniform,
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he has half a dozen
of ties, simple shirts...
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MP: We get surprised every time -
this is an outright lie.
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Putin loves luxury. He demands luxury
and does not know how to live differently.
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He himself, his relatives, children,
lovers and their children and relatives
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are literally swimming
in super-expensive real estate,
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Gazprom shares, money
from state-owned companies
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and other attributes of the life
of extremely wealthy people.
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------ GA: And on TV they say that Putin is an ascetic and owns nothing, nothing at all.
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They sculpt from scratch the image of a person to whom material values are alien.
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It doesn't interest him. He only has his job and Russia, and sometimes, as an exception,
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has a walk in the forest, picking mushrooms with another pensioner, Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu.
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It's a pine cone. Look. There's a pine cone on top.
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And this is a key part of the huge system of Putin's propaganda.
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There are many different elements - sometimes they show him a brilliant strategist and geopolitician,
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sometimes a tough leader who everyone's afraid of,
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and sometimes as a simple guy who can always crack a joke
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As you know, if a grandmother had the external genitals of a grandfather,
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she would be a grandfather, not a grandmother. So, there's no need to talk about...
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And of course he is so close to the people. Only Putin understands Russians.
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And rest for him is different. On his birthday, for example, he can go into the taiga, dressed in the clothes of a forester.
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And this is very important. Geopolitics be geopolitics, but you can't fool the entire nation.
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People have been promised for years that their salaries and pensions will be raised,
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but only got the raise of the retirement age.
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I ask you to treat this with understanding.
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They hear about the genius Putin on TV, and then go out into the street
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and see old people fight for expired food, because they don't even have money for normal food.
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And you must admit that when a person asks you to be patient and tighten your belts, but he himself lives like a sultan or an emperor,
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somehow you don’t want to tighten the belts. You want to come to him and say:
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"You've been the president for 20 years, and in power for almost 30,
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what have you done to the country, you geopolitician?"
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I believe that this is not a question on your part, this is a provocation
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So they came up with the image of "poor" Putin for us, who only has a small apartment, a Niva car and a Skif trailer.
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And his press secretary Peskov, wearing his 37-million-ruble watch, repeats:
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“Putin wears the same shirts, he is not interested in fashion at all,
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he's not even interested in food - Putin eats the simplest food. And he doesn't even have a hobby - only reading"
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He sits all day in simple shirts, on the edge of a chair, hungry, and reads historical literature. That's his image.
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But now we will expose this lie in a very simple and logical way, which was suggested to us by Dmitry Peskov himself.
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Putin does not have a palace in Gelendzhik. When you watch the video about this palace,
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ask yourself each time - what does Putin have to do with it?
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What does Putin have to do with it?
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What does the president have to do with it?
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Why Putin?
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No problem. If you don’t believe that the Gelendzhik palace with an aquadiskotheque belongs to Putin,
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if you think that this is an anti-Russian provocation and Rothenberg owns it, that's fine.
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Let's go to the facility that Putin definitely has something to do with: to his official residence.
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4 residences are assigned to Putin - for life, work and leisure.
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There are actually more of them, but these are known to practically everyone.
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The Kremlin , Novo-Ogarevo (this is Rublevka, Moscow region), Bocharov Ruchei (this is Sochi) and Valdai (Novgorod region).
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Putin spends all his time in these places. We are often shown protocol footage. Golden halls of the Kremlin,
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official events and even excursions around Novo-Ogarevo, meetings of foreign leaders and training in Sochi.
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And ... Wait a minute. We don't know anything at all about the fourth official residence.
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You have all heard many times : Putin is in Valdai, Putin is in Valdai.
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But surprisingly, Putin is never filmed there. This is his favorite and probably therefore most secret official dacha.
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And since there are no questions about whose dacha it is,
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the only thing that remains is to find out how Vladimir Vladimirovich officially spends his country days,
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how he rests, ascetic or not, and most importantly how much it costs us.
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Look, here is a plot of 150 hectares - this is the land on the northern part of the peninsula.
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There are technical buildings on it - warehouses, garages, hangars and small guest houses.
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The land officially belongs to the Russian Federation, is in perpetual use by the Federal Security Service,
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everything is formalized as it should be.
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But this southern part of the peninsula, 100 hectares between the two lakes Uzhin and Valdai,
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belongs to Yuri Kovalchuk, Putin's main purse, sponsor of his palaces and ladies.
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It's this part that the actual residence is located on - a summer house, baths, other buildings for entertainment and recreation.
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And the trick is that Kovalchuk, one of the richest men in Russia, leases this part of the peninsula
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to the Presidential Property Management Department. That is, we pay the rent for another Putin's dacha from the budget
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And we are paying not to anyone, but to Putin's best friend, whose fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.
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How much do we pay? On what terms? Why do we pay for it at all?
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There are no official answers to any of these questions.
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How did he get this land at all, why was Putin's residence built on private territory?
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Simply because in the last months of his first presidential term, in 2003, Putin thought about the future.
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After all, it’s good to have a dacha afterwards. So he decided to keep this one for himself.
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He couldn't register it for himself, so he registered it for a friend. Typical Putin: a housing cooperative on a lake.
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But of course we figured it out and will show you now
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where Putin is passing his quarantine days and where he invites his most beloved guests.
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We will start by showing the main house, not because it is impressive (it is quite modest by Putin's standards)
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but simply because it is very carefully hidden. There are no photos of it on the Internet at all. This needs to be fixed.
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Here it is. a 3500 m2 4-storey mansion. Balconies, terraces, main staircase with a fountain.
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These photos are quite old, now the territory has been landscaped, trees have been planted.
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There is also a lot of interesting things on the territory. For example, here, on the shore, there is a Chinese pavilion.
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It's a sort of a guest house. This is how it looks inside. An interesting structure.
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There are also cool huts, baths, gazebos, a restaurant, a separate building for a beer restaurant.
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There is a playground with a huge yellow-blue sun and slides... And of course there is an own church.
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On the website of the Russian Orthodox Church it is mentioned that its name is "Vladimirskaya".
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And in Kirov , an exact copy of it was specially built, albeit in a slightly more restrained color scheme.
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You're looking at it now and thinking: well, it's just a normal residence.
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Novo-Ogaryovo, Sochi and this one are all the same, they're state dachas.
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But Valdai is hidden for a reason. After all, here, 350 meters from the main house,
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hides the main Valdai secret of Putin, the temple of his asceticism. A home that is twice the size of the residence itself.
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Almost 7000 square meters. 3 floors, of which two of which are, of course, underground.
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What is this? A helicopter hangar? Storage for identical shirts and multiple ties?
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Some kind of very necessary maintenance room?
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No friends. This is a SPA complex. Personal beauty salon of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
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And these, Maria, are the floor plans for this spa complex.
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Wonderful.
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Everything as we love. Every room, every wall, everything is here for us to study.
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Since we're paying for this, we have the right to see it.
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These plans, by the way, can be downloaded at navalny.com, in Alexey's blog.
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All originals are there for you to download and study.
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How do you imagine an ascetic lifestyle? Do you think the ascetic goes to the spa at all?
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How can austerity go with a cryo chamber, where you are rejuvenated and healed with the help of extreme cold, -110 degrees?
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Or, for example, mud therapy, which takes place here. Does the ascetic go to a float pool?
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A float pool is a large bathtub, or capsule, filled with very salty water.
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You lie in it and seem to soar on the surface, as if you were weightless.
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All your muscles relax, you go into a meditative state - very useful for relieving stress and tension.
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Here is a fully equipped cosmetologist's office, next to it is a dentist's office.
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Opposite of it you can visit the lymphopress procedure and nearby massage baths.
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In the other wing, everything is the same as before. A 25 meter pool surrounded by contrast baths.
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The same as in Gelendzhik and Novo-Ogarevo. Hamam, sauna, everything is also here.
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We have not discussed this room yet. The epicenter of asceticism is located here.
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This is a massage room. There is a podium for Thai massage.
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A massage chair illuminated by a special infrared lamp (this one chair alone costs more than half a million rubles).
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And in the middle of the room there is a bed, curtained with a tulle canopy.
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We can even get a look at the interiors here. On one wall there is a ceramic panel with orchids,
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and on the other, a panel with a less sonorous name "Ziguli". How beautiful.
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If you climb a spiral staircase, you'll find yourself in a two-hundred-meter hall.
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There is also a bedroom upstairs, and a serving room
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- there is no kitchen here, because the serving room has a special elevator for food -
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and a giant 500 m2 living room. Apparently, it has a very impressive aquarium -
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after all, just the utility room for this aquarium occupies 13 m2.
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And let's quickly go over the basement floor as well. These are clearly technical rooms and staff rooms.
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We find the most long-awaited premises - maintenance room for the salt bath and a separate utility room for mud therapy.
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We've already seen this somewhere. And here is a room for special communications -
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in case someone has doubts about who exactly built such an ascetic spa complex for himself.
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In addition to this spa complex, the Property Management Department rents about 80 buildings, small and large.
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Until that moment, no one knew for how much and on what conditions.
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Even now, the documents from Rosreestr are in a horrible state - the names of buildings have been removed,
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the lease terms have been confused, the information has not been updated for years.
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The last mention on the public procurement website dates back to 2009.
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And from there we learn that on the territory of the residence, in addition to Chinese and Russian huts,
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there are also baths, a sauna, a stable, a golf course, a mini golf course,
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a VIP restaurant with a cinema, a bowling alley, a billiard room and even... a mini-casino.
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We probably would not have believed it then, but now, having found a home casino in Gelendzhik,
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it's unsurprising that there's a casino here as well.
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All this was built there by 2009, and knowing the appetites of the national leader,
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over the past 10 years, the number of VIP saunas, VIP restaurants and VIP golf courses there has only increased.
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We have little doubt that this is Putin's favorite residence.
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It is here that Putin is brought his favorite artists for personal VIP concerts.
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Do you remember the story of Natalia Vetlitskaya, who, together with Leps and Kirkorov,
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was brought to a private party for 6 people in costumes from Catherine's times? It happened here.
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Or here is the story of Igor Butman, a saxophonist and Putin's confidant.
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He was taken to Valdai in traffic police cars with flashing lights,
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and upon arrival they were sitting in some kind of hut on chicken legs, and Putin treated him to moonshine.
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Here it is, this hut, in the photograph.
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In the documents of the security guard of the former Ukrainian President Yanukovych, quite an unexpected source,
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you can find a mention of their secret meeting with Putin in Valdai, during the Maidan.
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There, the presidents were entertained by artists Elena Vaenga and Oleg Gazmanov.
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On the same day, an interview with Vaenga “straight from the Karelian forests” was published on the Radio Chanson website.
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Apparently, she saw the forests, but geography wasn't one of her strengths.
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Silvio Berlusconi was also lucky enough to visit Valdai, where he and Putin flew in a seaplane.
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Berlusconi was initially stunned by the proposal,
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especially since Putin did not go aboard and said goodbye to his old friend from the boat.
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So, the Valdai residence Putin's actual personal dacha.
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Journalists are not allowed here, there are no official meetings here. This is where Putin rests.
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And in accordance with Putin's good tradition, just like with the palace in Gelendzhik,
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the managers of this dacha (that is, the main keepers of local Putin's secrets)
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are generously rewarded with money and positions.
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For 20 years, Valery Pikalev was responsible for this dacha from the side of the FSO.
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Recently, Pikalev was appointed Vice Governor of St. Petersburg and Head of the Governor's Administration.
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We still have the most important question: How much does it cost?
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It turned out to be very simple to find out. Yuri Kovalchuk owns all of this through his company Prime.
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We checked and found everything that Prime has and how it gets income.
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We found out that apart from rent payments from PMD, they have no significant income.
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The company is not engaged in anything other than leasing this residence.
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Now let's look at the financial statements of Prime. Revenue for 2019 - 312 million, revenue for 2018 - 304 million.
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Over the past 10 years, they have earned 2.7 billion rubles. There are 3 years left until the end of this Putin's term.
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So, we will throw at least another billion on this dacha only as payment to the Kovalchuks.
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I understand why the president needs a residence. A House, a dacha, a dacha complex - no problem.
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In different parts of the country - let it be, we have a huge country after all.
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It is also clear that these are all budgetary expenditures, the presidents change, but state dachas remain.
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But what I absolutely do not understand is why on earth we pay Putin
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for the construction of personal spa complexes with massage and beauty rooms, cryochambers and float pools.
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Why on earth are billions of taxpayers' rubles spent on relaxation, mud therapy and rejuvenation of one person?
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And most importantly: why is this money paid in the form of rent to Putin's best friend, a billionaire?
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And it doesn't even belong to the state! If Putin leaves power one day, the rest of the residences,
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will remain on the state balance, as they've been since the Soviet times
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But here the state owns only half of the land, without the actual residence on it.
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The rest belongs to Kovalchuk. 300 million rubles a year are thrown to the wind,
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so that Putin has somewhere to lie down in weightlessness and where to invite artists.
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This investigation will not be shown on TV. On TV, they will show how the humble Putin once again outplays everyone,
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how he ascetically travels across Russia and admires wooden crafts.
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Putin's two decades have passed under the banner of such hypocrisy. TV Putin has nothing to do with real Putin.
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It is very important to show this video to those who watch TV and believe in such a Putin.
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Alexey Navalny is supposed to be in this studio, instead of us. But he is in a penal colony on a hunger strike.
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Navalny was illegally imprisoned by Putin for telling the truth about Putin's corruption, lies and hypocrisy.
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We will continue to tell this truth.
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Freedom for Alexei Navalny.
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The best way to support Alexei Navalny right now is to register at free.navalny.com.
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We set ourselves a goal: to gather 500,000 people ready to go out in support of Navalny and other political prisoners.
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Find your house on the map, mark it, and let's show the authorities how many of us are there.
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