The propagandists who demonstrated the luxurious Navalno apartments in Germany got the answer: Wow, there is even a bathroom!

However, the plot about “A. Navalno Villa ”received mocking reactions on social media.

“A very ordinary German apartment. Where is the point here? ”Asked an Internet user.

“Wow, there’s even a bathroom in that apartment!” Another sneered. “It’s a strange way to attack Navalna. This is a really comfortable apartment, but by no means luxurious,” wrote another.

“Here’s the toilet brush”

Images from the residence where A. Navaln lived in Germany were shown on the Rossiya television channel’s “Vesti nedeli” segment, inserting episodes from Navaln’s high-profile study of Russian leader Putin’s palace on the Black Sea.

“Vesti nedeli” is one of the most popular Sunday news programs in Russia.

The show accuses Navaln of enjoying the same luxury in a German village that criticized Putin. Vesti Nedeli provided unmanned footage and a report from inside Friborg Villa. The correspondent Anastasia Popova presented the pool of the villa, ironically presented the boiler room as a “mud room” (probably to recall the mud storage of V. Putin’s mansion) and showed the toilet up close.

“Here’s the toilet brush,” the program’s correspondent said, alluding to the $ 700 tool in Putin’s mansion, which became a symbol of Navaln’s mass protests, according to Navaln’s investigation.

According to the report, A. Navalnas spent 30,000 euros on a villa for two months.

After a seven-minute report, Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov’s show featured another segment accusing the West of funding Navaln’s video investigation, which has been viewed 110 million times in three weeks.

“The goal is clear: to harm President Putin as the country’s leader and to harm Russia itself,” Kiseliov said, reiterating statements by the country’s officials that Navaln was a foreign agent.

Later, it became clear that the propagandists of “Vesti nedeli” fraudulently filmed a report from the village where A. Navalnas lived. Dožd reported that the program’s correspondents pretended to be tourists from Belgium and a secret camera was filmed.

The owner of the house told the TV channel “Dožd”.

According to the owner of the villa, he did not know that he had rented the house to Russian journalists, who were filming it with a hidden camera. Journalist A. Popova introduced herself with the French surname Bourt. That is the name of her husband, a Belgian national. Later, after learning about the video that was being created about the supposedly luxurious life of A. Navaln in Germany, the owner decided to contact the German police authorities.

The plot of “Vesti nedeli” also states that A. Navalnas rented the villa for two months. However, the owner of the villa claims to have rented the residence for six weeks.

The author of the story emphasized that the politician lived in luxury: “Large living room, two sofas, TV, fresh fruit on the table.” Accommodation is said to cost 530 euros a day.

According to the same plot, the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by A. Navalno filmed the movie “Putin’s Manor” in the German studio “The Black Forest Studios”, and the journalist calculated the cost of the shooting together with the amount of A’s living expenses. Navalno in Germany “Vesti nedeli”.

Volkov: The plot is full of lies

Leonid Volkov, a colleague of A. Navaln and chief of staff of the regional network of political offices, said in an interview with Dozd that the plot shown on Russian television is full of lies.

He taught that the owner of the villa was a member of the Solidarity movement and was forced to flee Poland in the early 1980s when political persecution began. L. Volkov also said that he was in contact with the owner of the villa, and was comforted that he was very upset that he had let journalists in without thinking about his intentions.

The chief of staff of the regional network of political offices of A. Navaln stressed that filming with a hidden camera is considered a criminal activity in Germany, Belgium and Russia.

L. Volkov noted that he had personally consulted with the landlord about the lease, and since the apartment was rented for six weeks, the landlord offered a significant discount. According to the opposition, the price of accommodation on the Rossija 1 plot was doubled. The invoice was paid by the businessman Jevgenijus Čičvarkinas, a close friend of A. Navalnas.

L. Volkov added that he had personally paid the rental bill for the Black Forest studios: 1800 euros for two days of filming. The filming request was not made from the United States, as A. Popova said in the report; he introduced himself to the study.

Later, the author of the story, A. Popova, assured on the television channel “Rossija 1” that no secret filming was carried out, the cameraman “held the video camera in his hands, as is usual when speaking with the interlocutor.”

He assured that the owner of the villa “at that time was not interested in the documents presented in German, which state that we are journalists from the” Rossija “television channel, that we have gone on a business trip.”

A Moscow court has just sentenced Navalna to nearly three years in prison for violating the terms of a one and a half year suspended prison sentence.

Navalna was arrested at the Moscow airport on January 17, less than an hour after returning to Russia from Germany, where he was being treated with Novičiok, a nerve paralyzing substance developed by Soviet scientists after poisoning last summer.

The opposition accuses the Federal Security Service (FSB) of carrying out the attack on Putin’s instructions. The Kremlin categorically denies it.

Last week, Russian state television denied Putin owned a manor house on the Black Sea, which Navaln estimated at $ 1.5 billion. Dollars. Later, Putin’s close ally, billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, declared that he was the true owner of the palace.

On Monday, an independent analytics center in Levada announced: 26 percent. Russians saw A. Navalnas study on the so-called Putin mansion, and 17 percent. the Russians said that after watching this investigation on video, their opinion of Putin deteriorated.

Last weekend, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emergencies created accounts on the TikTok platform. The Russian Foreign Ministry ridiculed A. Navalnas for In August, he questioned the safety of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine developed in Russia.