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During a meeting with students, Russian President Vladimir Putin received a request to comment on a study by opposition activist Alexei Navaln on the $ 100 billion rubles of the mansion in Gelendzhik, believed to belong to the president.
Putin called the study a montage and a compilation, and said he never had anything similar to what is shown in the study material.
“Nothing that is presented as supposedly my property belongs and has never belonged to me or my close family members. Never, ”Putin said in response to a question about the mansion.
He clarified that he himself had not seen the investigation because he had no free time, but had “read the passages that his assistants provided him.”
“It just came to our notice then. This is just a very comfortable moment. He put it all together, decided to brainwash all our stuff for our citizens. (…) This is the simplest compilation. Montage. In the words of a Well-known character, I would like to say: “Girls, boring,” Putin said.
Kremlin critic A. Navalnas, who on February 17. Upon his return to Russia, he was arrested, an investigation into a luxury property he said belonged to President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday.
A study posted on the opposition’s blog and a two-hour video posted on YouTube before he returned to Russia say the property is worth $ 1.35 billion. dollars (1.12 billion euros) and that the “largest bribe in history” was paid.
The report indicates that the farm on the Black Sea coast is 39 times larger than Monaco, which has a casino located on 17,691 square meters. m area of the cottage, skating rink, vineyard.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is also said to own around 7,000. It has land around it and that the complex was financed by Putin’s close allies, including Igor Sechin, who heads the country’s largest oil industrial group, Rosneft, and magnate Gennady Timchenko.
“It just came to our attention then. And Putin is the only irreplaceable czar in this country,” Navaln says.
The investigation was announced the day after Navaln, who was arrested Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, was sentenced to 30 days in prison less than an hour after returning to Russia.
Until Sunday, A. Navaln, 44, was treated in Berlin after poisoning with the nerve paralyzing substance “Novičiok” last August. A Kremlin critic claims that he tried to poison him on the orders of FSB Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin denies it.
On February 2, the court will begin to consider whether to replace the one-and-a-half year probation sentence imposed on A. Navalnas in 2014 on fraud charges with a real custodial sentence.
February 18 A critic of the Kremlin has called on his followers to take to the streets to protest his arrest. Opposition allies are planning rallies in Moscow and other cities across the country on Saturday.
A new investigation by A. Navaln, ending with a call on Russians to rebel against the government, recalls a 2017 post on YouTube in which he accused then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of ruling a luxury property empire.
That investigation sparked large-scale opposition protests.
Sergei Kolesnikov, a businessman and mystery man, was the first to announce such ownership in the Black Sea and his relations with Putin in 2010, describing it in an open letter to Medvedev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, speaking with a correspondent for the state news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday, ignored A. Navaln’s remarks, calling them incorrect.
The video, posted in conjunction with Navaln’s investigation, was viewed by 3 million people in the first two hours. together.
Peskov said he had not seen Navaln’s new investigation into a palace built for Putin near Gelendzhik, but stressed that the president had no such property.
“I am not familiar with the study. But I can immediately say that this dish is old. Many years ago, we explained that Putin does not have a palace in Gelendzhik,” Peskov said in a comment to the Daily Storm.
Massive protests in support of Navaln were held in several Russian cities on Saturday. According to data released by independent monitoring group OVD Info on Sunday, more than 3.3 thousand people were arrested. protesters.
After Navaln called for protests against President Putin’s government, tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday and police clashed with protesters in Moscow.
OVD Info reported Sunday that police had arrested at least 3,324 protesters in dozens of cities to monitor opposition rallies. According to the group, 1,320 people were arrested in Moscow and 490 in St. Petersburg.
The number of arrests during opposition rallies was the highest in the history of modern Russia.
During the demonstrations in the capital and St. Petersburg, several protesters were injured.
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