Navalny got into trouble with the investigation into “Putin’s palace”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has nothing to do with the unfinished palace complex, which, according to blogger Alexei Navalny, belongs to the head of the Russian state.

Moscow journalist Anastasia Kashevarova writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, on her blog.

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According to her, the object that appears in Navalny’s film “is not Putin’s style.”

"1. Hookah bar. Vladimir Vladimirovich cannot stand the smell of cigarettes and other smoking products. Even the FSO officers chased away journalists and administration employees many times when they smoked under the windows, because “the boss can’t stand the smell.” In addition, smoking hookahs was banned for a reason. We all remember this law. Putin is an avid healthy lifestyle enthusiast and oppresses smokers! So the hookah bar is not about him.

2. A huge four-poster bed in a huge, uncomfortable bedroom. Again, by. Military people who are used to being always on the alert, and many high-ranking officials, for example, even Patriarch Kirill, love when everything is neat, cozy, ascetic, in such a place you feel more protected. And Putin is just an ascetic, a security officer, these womanish canopies contradict his attitude towards all these frills, he is a dork. This is psychology, in which, alas, Alexey Anatolyevich is a layman.

3. Names - “aquadisco”, “mud warehouse” and so on - this is what the designers call the room. For example, I built a house for several years, and the designers called the attic floor “dance room.” Well, I’ll just throw a ball, haha. Again, where is Putin and where is the disco?

4. The only thing that can be applied to the President is the hockey rink and those people who build it all.

5. They’ve been building the palace for so many years and still can’t get it done; they’re constantly pumping money into it - this is not Putin’s style. They are similar to Ramzan in this, I remember how they delayed the construction of the Akhmat stadium and one unfortunate builder was hung on a hook by his pants. It hung there for several hours - everything was done on time and without extra money. There was a story, I tell you as I remember, when one person snatched furniture and other things from the residence. And when Putin was shown a list of what the man stole and what was found at his dacha, the President said: “So he stole from me, bitch.”

6. Vineyards and so on - Medvedev is more of a fan. Putin won’t do this, again, it’s not his style, he’s too brutal,” the journalist writes.

At the same time, she notes that questions remain about whose palace it is and who is building it all.

“I can only guess based on the fact that I myself observed how those around those in power behave. Probably an influential financial and industrial group is building some kind of residence for everyone. And in order to somehow lick and write the president there, supposedly it will be your room.

For example, in Kadyrov’s residence there is a room for Putin - there’s a sign hanging there. Nobody lives there. And everything is also expensive and rich, and Putin did not ask to do this, this is a personal decision of the Head of the Republic, BUT Kadyrov’s residence is the property of the state.

The only thing this financial-industrial group and a number of officials who also built houses and hotels in Gelendzhik (Navalny probably doesn’t know about them) can do now is to stop framing the president, say that it’s theirs and transfer everything into state ownership and make a house there rest for children, let Sirius own it, for example,” sums up Kashevarova.

In the comments to the post, Kommersant journalist Alexey Khodorych recalled that his publication wrote about this object long before Navalny’s current “revelations.”

“To all commentators who continue to believe that this is Putin’s palace, a simple question - why is it taking so long to build? We are talking about this “palace” back in 2011 they wrote – unlike Navalny, honestly and without fraud. The article also does not answer whose palace this is. But I suggest you familiarize yourself with the “uniqueness” of the film,” Khodorych emphasized.

The publication linked above indicates that in 2010, The Washington Post published a letter claiming that a palace on the Black Sea coast in the Gelendzhik region was allegedly built for then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.