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Building materials, scaffolding, exposed brick walls, stacks of concrete bags. Power lines hanging from the ceiling. Power outlet not working.
There are no doors that copy the Winter Palace with the double-headed eagle. There is no water disco. Non-smoking room with hookahs.
Maksim Iksanov, editor-in-chief of Mash, states in the article that it will be a long time before anyone can enjoy life in Putin’s palace. He also notes that it is not clear what the palace will be used for. Perhaps a retirement home for oligarchs? he suggests.
At the same time you note Iksanov that the construction manager who had let him in refuses to talk about who owns the building.
– You who are the owner of this palace – I beg you, tell me where you are! says Iksanov.
The exterior walls of the palace are covered with marble. It is definitely a very expensive building. Iksanov visits the theater, which is half finished, but shows no footage of the underground hockey rink. It is quite clear that he has not been allowed to move freely in the area. No medium other than Mash has been invited. Mash is published in a channel of the Telegram messaging application.
When the leader of the opposition Alexei Navalny premiered his film “A Castle for Putin”, he also spoke about how it had come about. On the one hand, they had filmed with drones, and on the other hand, they used film material that the construction workers had taken away. But above all, they had obtained the drawings of the building and with their help made an estimate of how it looks inside. To help them, they also had copies of furniture orders that had been placed with an exclusive Italian company.
The debate about the new movie immediately started on Russian social media. Some now believe Navalny’s film is a fake, while others point out that no one knows what changes were made to the palace before the journalist was admitted. For example, removing a port is easy.
The biggest bribe With the film, however, it is that the owner of the palace is apparently willing to show it off, but not to talk about who he is.
Navalny’s film has so far received more than 100 million views on YouTube.
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