The financial and property empire of Dmitry Medvedev. Palaces, estates, vineyards

The publication and video report tells about several estates in Russia and abroad. All material was published on the website of the opposition politician. Here are the favorites.

“It was a huge job, and at first we were not at all sure that it could be done by our forces. But we did. We found and photographed (!!!) all residences in Russia and abroad, found damn elusive yachts and meticulously geotagged them, photos from Instagram and archived records established where and who sailed on them. They were hiding from the FSO guarding the facilities. We spent hundreds of man-hours analyzing social media and looking for the photos we wanted. We shoveled the offshore documentation. We looked at domain names. We looked through literally every photo of the protagonist for the year to find the right sneakers and shirts (this is how it all started). We went to Tuscany to shoot vineyards, and to the Kursk region - cows.

... I am proud to present the largest FBK investigation ever done so far.

And, perhaps most importantly, politically: we are talking about the second person in the country. Prime Minister and former President of Russia. The main and constant partner of Putin, his most trusted person - he was not afraid to transfer the country to him for four years.

He's not Dimon for you. He is a serious corrupt uncle.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is not at all such a harmless and comic character that he seems to be. Don't be fooled by board sleep, badminton, or gadgets.

This is a very cunning and greedy man, clearly slightly obsessed with residences and luxury real estate and created one of the largest corruption schemes in the country for the sake of owning them. And, we must pay tribute to him, one of the most sophisticated.

We found, described and documented the existence of a network of charitable and non-profit foundations organized by proxies and relatives of Medvedev. The word "charitable" should not be embarrassing: only Medvedev and his family are the recipients of "aid" here.

They use funds in order to receive "donations" (read: bribes) from oligarchs and banks under state control and spend funds on the purchase of palaces, yachts and vineyards in Russia and abroad.

And yes - it's very tricky. Who owns, for example, Medvedev's secret dacha in Plyos, about which we did a lot of investigation? Formally, nobody. The charitable organization - the Gradislav Foundation, which means that there are not even individuals - the ultimate owners, because the property of a non-profit organization belongs only to it, and not even to its founders.

In fact, everyone understands that the dacha belongs to Medvedev. She is guarded by the FSO. The service unit is located there. There is even an official no-fly zone above the Plyos dacha.

That is, a corruption scheme is based on the creation of a charitable organization with a reliable person (classmate, relative) at the head. After that, you can safely pump up the organization with money and buy palaces-yachts on them, without fear that someone will poke a piece of paper in the face, where your name is in the column "owner".

Only there is one problem: there cannot be many reliable people. If there are a small number of people involved in organizing, financing and managing a bunch of charitable foundations, the main feature of which is the ownership of the property of Prime Minister Medvedev, then everything becomes clear: this is corruption.

Starting with these cheerful-colored sneakers, we established and documented the entire corruption empire of Dmitry Medvedev, the funds that make up it, and his closest confidants.

These are bribes from the oligarchs Usmanov and Mikhelson;

The money of Gazprombank, which was previously seen many times in the fact that it works as a "wallet" to cover the costs of high-ranking officials;

Transfers from other companies (for example, a subsidiary of Bashneft).

This money was built, bought and maintained

The family estate and agricultural complex of Medvedev in Mansurovo:

Mountain residence "Psekhako" in Sochi:

Vineyards in Anapa and Tuscany:

Milovka, which we showed earlier:

And much more, which we talk about in our investigation. In its video version. And in its detailed text version with all documents.

Here I will briefly talk about only one episode, which is enough to send both Medvedev and Usmanov to the dock.

This is the second chapter of our story. A very good example of how these people are not shy at all.

This is the Rublev residence owned by Medvedev. One of the most expensive objects in the Moscow region. It costs about 5 billion rubles. Formally, it belongs to the Sotsgosproekt fund, which is completely identical to the DAR fund, to which Milovka, Medvedev's dacha in Plyos, is registered.

Do you know how this object, worth 5 billion, ended up in Medvedev's possession?

Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov, one of the richest oligarchs in Russia with a fortune of $ 12.5 billion, simply gives the Medvedev Foundation both land and a mansion.

How do you call it? That's right: a bribe.

This is what we call it in our crime statement. And in general, all this our investigation and as a whole, and broken into episodes will be turned into statements of crimes. "

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FKR) of Alexei Navalny has published its own investigation of the wealthy real estate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Russia and abroad.

According to the investigation, the prime minister does not own the property directly, but through a network of non-profit foundations run by his fellow students. So, one of the offshore companies owns Italian vineyards in Tuscany and a yacht.

The publication of the Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that allegedly "the head of the ruling United Russia party owns real estate throughout the country, he owns huge plots of land in the most elite areas, he manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and for abroad ".

The FKR says that one of these houses Medvedev received as a gift from the businessman Alisher Usmanov. According to the documents, the property is registered with a charitable foundation. According to the investigation, the prime minister controls several charitable foundations where bribes from the richest entrepreneurs in Russia function, as well as Bashneft's money.

But there is no direct evidence that all this belongs to the prime minister. “The real owner of the assets is almost impossible to trace because, once registered for charities, they are essentially not owned by anyone. Medvedev's property is managed by his friends, classmates and confidants, ”the investigation says.

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The Anti-Corruption Foundation has published an investigation "He's not Dimon for you," dedicated to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Thirteen chapters of the publication tell about the prime minister's elite real estate in Russia and abroad.

So, according to the Fund, Medvedev received a house and 4.3 hectares of land in the village of Znamenskoye near Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway as a gift from billionaire Alisher Usmanov. FBK estimated the cost of the site and construction at about 5 billion rubles.

Formally, the property is registered with the Fund for the Support of Socially Significant State Projects, the supervisory board of which is headed by Medvedev's classmate Ilya Eliseev. "This fund has nothing to do with charity and does not conduct any notable activities. The fund is managed by the same people as the Dar and Gradislava funds, which own Medvedev's residence in Plyos and other personal properties of the Prime Minister," the investigation says. ...

In addition, according to FBK, Medvedev owns an estate with an area of about 240,000 square meters in the village of Mansurovo, Kursk Region. The residence is registered as the property of the "Mansurovo" agricultural complex. This agro-complex and other agricultural enterprises in the Kursk region are run by Eliseev, as well as by the prime minister's cousin Andrei Medvedev.

FBK found Medvedev's winter residence in Krasnaya Polyana. "There are several buildings on four hectares of protected land, including a residence with an area of 4 thousand square meters. As in the story of Medvedev's dacha in Plesskaya, at the stage of the Olympic construction, the land lease was issued to the Dar fund. At the end of 2014, the property was donated the Foundation for the Support of Olympic Winter Sports, unknown to anyone, "the investigation says. The supervisory board of the fund is headed by Eliseev.

In addition, according to the FBK publication, Medvedev owns the Milovka estate in Ples, vineyards in the Anapa region, a plot near the village of Maslovo on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway, as well as two plots by the sea in the Krasnodar Territory and a mansion in St. Petersburg. An offshore company associated with Medvedev owns two yachts, the report says.

The Fund claims that all the listed property "was purchased with bribes from oligarchs and loans from state banks." "Dacha in Ples, a manor on Rublevka donated by Usmanov, a secret mountain dacha in Psekhako, lands in Utrish, Olginka and the village of Maslovo near Moscow, Anapa vineyards, the count's palace, converted into apartments with car lifts, agro-business and yachts - all this is serviced from a single center, "the report says.

"Funding is also centralized. Donations, contributions, loans are distributed by the management companies of the Dar fund, money is taken offshore to be spent on yachts and Italian vineyards. Dozens of legal entities that are not connected at first glance are in fact united by common employees and addresses , real estate often turns out to be registered to the same people, but the only element that unites all this into a system is Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, "the FBK says.

In September, the Alexei Navalny Foundation already published an investigation into Medvedev's dacha in Ples. Then the press secretary of the Prime Minister Natalya Timakova said that this object "is not owned by Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev and is not used by him and his family members on another legal basis."

A trifle. Just a funny little thing like sneakers or a shirt with a bright pattern can betray even the most sophisticated corrupt official and become a starting point for exposing him. This has happened in our history as well: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has created an image of an official that no one takes seriously. His most odious statements evoke in society more ridicule than anger. They treat him with condescension, because at least he does not seem like an outright villain.

Even after the FBK declassified his secret dacha in Plyos - one of the most expensive objects that we have ever filmed - the opinion about him has not fundamentally changed. Everyone still considers him an eccentric, who turned out to be out of place, weak-willed, but good, in essence, a person, a lover of funny gadgets, not palaces. Today we will tell you how wrong everyone was. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is not at all a funny eccentric, over whom it is worth laughing at. He is the creator and leader of a huge, multi-tiered corruption scheme. The head of the ruling United Russia party owns real estate throughout the country, he owns huge plots of land in the most elite areas, he manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and abroad.

All this property was purchased with bribes from oligarchs and loans from state banks. The Prime Minister and his trusted people have created a criminal scheme based not on offshore, as is often the case, but on non-profit foundations. This is a very clever solution. The true owner of the assets is almost impossible to trace because, once registered for charities, they are essentially not owned by anyone. Medvedev's property is managed by his friends, classmates and confidants. The structure of this criminal scheme is so complex that it took us several months to describe it, and it is not known how we would prove Medvedev's involvement in it - but here we were lucky. The former president, the current prime minister and the owner of colossal corruption assets were given away ... ordinary sneakers.

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He's not Dimon for you

It was a huge job, and at first we were not at all sure that it was possible to do it with our forces. But we did. We found and filmed (!!!) all the residences in Russia and abroad, found the damn elusive yachts and meticulously geotagged them, photos from Instagram and archived records, established where and who sailed on them. They were hiding from the FSO guarding the facilities. We spent hundreds of man-hours analyzing social media and looking for the photos we wanted. We shoveled the offshore documentation. We looked at domain names. We looked through literally every photo of the protagonist for the year to find the right sneakers and shirts (this is how it all started). We went to Tuscany to shoot vineyards, and to the Kursk region - cows.

Damn, we even bought the rights to the song of the "Combination" group to make it more fun for you to watch this film.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is not at all such a harmless and comic character that he seems to be. Don't be deceived sleep at meetings , badminton, or passion for gadgets.

They use funds to receive "donations" (read: bribes) from oligarchs and banks under state control and spend funds on the purchase of palaces, yachts and vineyards in Russia and abroad.

In fact, everyone understands that the dacha belongs to Medvedev. She is guarded by the FSO. The service unit is located there. There is even an official no-fly zone above the Plyos dacha.

Starting with these fun-colored sneakers,

we have identified and documented the entire corruption empire of Dmitry Medvedev, the funds that make up it, and his closest confidants.

This
- bribes from the oligarchs Usmanov and Mikhelson;
- the money of Gazprombank, which has been noticed many times in the fact that it works as a "wallet" to cover the expenses of high-ranking officials (see "Vinokur's case" and "Sechin's wife's salary case");
- transfers from other companies (for example, a subsidiary of Bashneft).

This money was used to build, buy and maintain:

The family estate and agricultural complex of Medvedev in Mansurovo:

Mansurovo

Mountain residence "Psekhako" in Sochi:

Vineyards in Anapa and Tuscany:

Milovka, which we showed earlier:

And much more, which we talk about in our investigation. In its video version. And in its detailed text version with all documents.

Here I will briefly talk about only one episode, which is enough to send both Medvedev and Usmanov to the dock.

Do you know how this object, worth 5 billion, ended up in Medvedev's possession?

Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov, one of the richest oligarchs in Russia with a fortune of $ 12.5 billion, simply gives the Medvedev Foundation both land and a mansion.

How do you call it? That's right: a bribe.

This is what we call it in our crime statement. And in general, all this our investigation and as a whole, and broken into episodes will be turned into statements of crimes.

Yes, we understand that now the government will do everything to prevent any steps that the law enforcement agencies are obliged to take. That is, what happened with the Chaika will repeat itself. But, as they say, you have to live in Russia for a long time. Sooner or later we will achieve our goal and see all the characters in the dock. And next to them will be those who will block the investigation now.

However, even this is not the main thing now. You and I perfectly understand that the Kremlin will focus its main efforts not on working with the "law enforcement officers" (otherwise Chaika and Bastrykin themselves do not understand what to do), but on stop the dissemination of information about the investigation .

They 100% control their servicemen in uniform, but public opinion and the heads of citizens are not so easy to control. Yes, of course, zomboyaschik, all the cases, but nevertheless, by joint efforts, we can easily punch a hole in the picture of the world of the average citizen of the Russian Federation.

Let's work together to this end. Moreover, there is such an attractive and understandable format, with filming from the air. We need to get all those 20 million people below the poverty line to look at Medvedev's apartments with elevators for cars and angels for fireplaces.

Don't fall into the trap " why should I distribute this link, everyone has already seen it". Not all. It is your link, your comment that is missing. It's not enough to just throw it on Facebook today. Today. And then tomorrow. And to be sure, in two days.

A couple of emails. SMS to your beloved grandmother. A letter to a classmate with the subject " look at Medvedev's castle in Italy».

By the way, I want to say that this kind of visual content goes even better on social networks for older people. Video clip about Medvedev Milovka on YouTube it has 4.2 million views, and on "classmates" - 7 million. This is despite the fact that we ourselves did not spread it to classmates - the people themselves took it to accounts.

If you don’t want to send it to your grandmother, but you want to know a foreigner, no problem - this is the description of the investigation in English.

A separate appeal to journalists:

First, how much can you be afraid? It’s impossible to spend your whole life publishing what not scary.

Secondly, it's your traffic, your clicks, your circulation. Nothing people read like corruption investigations with such texture.

Third, this is your chance to make your profession interesting and rewarding. Each episode of this investigation can and should be supplemented with its own story. Stakeholder comment. Just a trip to the scene. We have revealed only the most basic. Who knows, maybe you will cling to something (as we do to sneakers) and find something that will make you the main journalist of the country. Your name will be mentioned in journalism departments when they talk about how to do investigations.

In general, dear everyone, help. Our work is meaningless if millions do not know about it. This is our joint project, and your contribution is equally important.

Well, do not forget that I need your signatures in support of the nomination, the Anti-Corruption Fund exists and does such an investigation only thanks to. Support us if you think we are doing a useful job.

They unite and protect each other to build palaces for themselves, and let us act together to reclaim our country.

Dmitry Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova said that the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, dedicated to the "secret empire" of the prime minister. It has a “pronounced pre-election character. According to her, it is "pointless" to comment on these accusations, Interfax reports.

Tying together different facts, we eventually came to a whole grandiose corruption empire, where there are vineyards in Anapa, vineyards in Tuscany, a mountain residence, two estates on Rublevka ... It is difficult to describe this investigation in a few words, it is very large, and it simply shows that people spent 70 billion rubles on entertainment. Georgy Alburov

The director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Alexei Navalny, Roman Rubanov, sent a statement to the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) on Thursday to initiate a criminal case against Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and businessman Alisher Usmanov under Art. 290 of the Criminal Code (taking bribes) and Art. 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe). Vedomosti

Mansions, vineyards, yachts: Dmitry Medvedev broke the law?

The Anti-Corruption Foundation has published a massive investigation into Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It follows from the material that people associated with Medvedev and charitable foundations own several luxurious residences in Russia and abroad, agricultural land and two yachts. Alexei Navalny calls Medvedev's actions a criminal offense; in an interview with Dozhd, he said that the prime minister "could be sent to the dock even tomorrow." Ilya Shumanov, deputy general director of Transparency International Russia, explained to Meduza that from the point of view of the letter of the law, Medvedev is difficult to reproach for anything.

Legal reasoning is the weakest point of the new Anti-Corruption Fund investigation. I do not see anything illegal in what Mr Medvedev has done. The fact is that because of the gaps in Russian legislation, it turns out that all the assets listed in the investigation are formalized in accordance with the law. That is, if you look exactly from the point of view of the letter of the law, everything is completely legal.

The assets in question in the investigation belong to non-profit charitable organizations. For example, the residence donated by [businessman] Alisher Usmanov is his contribution to the NGO. Such organizations do not formally have owners, do not imply the extraction of profit and the withdrawal of assets. A certain hired manager is in charge of these assets, and it is difficult to establish who the real owner is. The arguments related to sneakers and hacked mails, I will not evaluate, because they are outside the legal field and legal expertise.

Dmitry Medvedev himself is not mentioned in the documents of the charitable organizations involved in the investigation. It mentions people close to the prime minister and, in particular, [his classmate] Ilya Eliseev. One could say that he is the nominal owner of these non-profit foundations, but [in fact] he is a fairly self-sufficient figure. Since 2005, Eliseev has held the position of deputy chairman of Gazprombank and is on the board of directors of Gazprom-Media, so that he could acquire and use all these assets himself. It turns out that Medvedev may not be involved in all this.

The form of a non-profit organization is a corruption-generating hole in the Russian legal field. In this case, the legal scheme provides the possibility of illicit enrichment and avoids liability. I think, commenting on the investigation, Medvedev and Eliseev will point exactly to the legal side, while the ethical side will be behind the scenes.

FBK conducted a good, logical investigation. If the Prime Minister uses the property of the Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank, who studied with him on the same course, this creates a situation of conflict of interest. This is a sign of a corruption offense, for which there must be some kind of responsibility. But the findings of the investigation did not mention a conflict of interest.

In a European country, this whole situation would become a reason for the resignation of the prime minister and the cabinet, but in Russia this is unlikely.

“We found 80 percent of the schemes in 20 percent of the time spent”Interview with Georgy Alburov, one of the authors of the investigation about Dmitry Medvedev's property

Georgy Alburov and a quadcopter. Photo: Evgeny Feldman for FBK

- Did this investigation really start with a pair of sneakers you saw on Dmitry Medvedev?

Of course, it started with many things at the same time, but a pair of sneakers is such a very important expressive part, it really helped us a lot. It turned out that the whole corruption scheme was traced from the purchase of this pair. These sneakers were ordered for one of the people closest to the prime minister Medvedev. We began to look at what else was behind this man - and immediately went to the vineyards, houses, including the estate in the old village of Mansurovo, where Medvedev's ancestors lived. Yes, the sneakers helped us a lot.

Was the whole scheme drawn quickly or was it difficult to find people close to the Prime Minister and identify them?

We found 80 percent of the schemes in 20 percent of the time spent. With the rest it was more difficult - we went from one legal entity to another, we do not see any connection. Then people from one of our schemes suddenly found themselves associated with companies from a completely different part of the scheme. It began to become more complicated, confused, but with each new discovery it was clear: all these people we are talking about are directly related to Dmitry Medvedev. There were no particular difficulties with identification: the lists of Medvedev's classmates are public and open. It was more difficult to identify the students, but we identified them by the years of graduation.

There was a question about one person, we could not verify it. Someone Vitaly Golovachev. In the late 1990s, he was in the insurance business - he was suing on behalf of insurance companies, then disappeared for ten years and suddenly turned up as a top manager at Gazprombank, at the Meritazh company, at the Dar charitable foundation ( all organizations are involved in the FBK investigation - approx. "Medusa"). Unfortunately, it was not possible to communicate with him.

- From your point of view, did all these people strongly conceal their activities?

Most likely, Medvedev was confident that he would write everything down to some non-profit funds that do not pay taxes. He will appoint his classmates there, or their students, in cases where classmates are too pale, and this scheme will work. Yes, she is quite reliable in terms of management: all these people are Medvedev's close associates, super-trusted individuals. But the problem is that the number of such people is very limited. Such a scheme could have been identified for a long time.

- How many people were investigating?

Six months ago we started ... At first there were two people, closer to the final four people were engaged in the investigation, and six more - on the website, video, graphics, music and so on. Let me put it this way: the amount of effort that we put into making it all look good, readable and memorable is even greater than the amount of effort [spent] on gathering facts.

- Tell us about the quadrocopter, filming with it is a separate important part of the investigation.

The quadrocopter is our faithful fighter, he has been with us since last year and has been helping us a lot. This is the basic model and can be purchased at any hardware store. It shoots well: we learned how to work with it and smooth out some technical difficulties. If you roughly estimate, 20 million people have seen the video that was made with its help. It is our indispensable tool and practically a member of the team.

-And the rights to the songs of the "Combination" group are the same beautiful detail as with the sneakers? Why do you need them?

Not so simple! At some point we realized that we were using the song too many times. And I don't want YouTube to ban us for copyright infringement. So we went to the owners of these songs and formalized the purchase of the rights to use them. The copyright holders, interestingly, were very surprised, no one had ever bought the rights to songs from them, they did not even have a template for a contract. It cost quite a bit of money, about 10 thousand rubles per song. It's worth not getting banned.

With your investigation, you have convincingly proved that Dmitry Medvedev's inner circle lives well. Do you think you have convincingly proved that all these people were buying up everything they could in the interests of the Prime Minister?

Yes, anyone can come to us and ask: what does Medvedev have to do with it? Here are his classmates, relatives and friends. But we have collected enough texture for ourselves and for everyone else to answer this question. Look: how many people are there in the world to whom [businessman] Alisher Usmanov gives estates, and even a real palace on Rublevka? Not so much. Medvedev visited and used all these facilities. We prove this convincingly.

In Psekhako, with the help of a drone, we photographed the pipes of a country house in the mountains and compared them with those that Medvedev posts on his instagram. These are the same pipes. Regarding the yacht - we have found the geolocation of this yacht in the last two years. She went to Plyos four times, where Medvedev has his residence, and twice to the “Scarlet Sails” holiday in St. Petersburg. This is a holiday of graduates, a beautiful event, fireworks. There shipping is closed at this moment. The only yacht for which an exception was made is the yacht "Fotinia", with which Medvedev took his photographs and also posted them. All this is iron evidence.

Part of the property you are talking about is recorded for charitable foundations. Have you seen their reports? Who do they help at all?

This is an interesting question in the sense that we don't know - they don't publish their accounts. They do not submit reports to the Ministry of Justice, as required by law. Our foundation leases, but they don’t. This is a direct violation of the law. They can be found on the website of the tax office, but it is difficult to draw correct conclusions from the information from there. For example, they put up a cadastral estimate for real estate, and the estate on Rublevka with a market value of two billion rubles is estimated much lower.

- How do you like the firstreactionto investigate?

I read the reaction [of the press secretary of the Prime Minister Natalia] Timakova ... You know, all my life I was sure that she is a rather reserved person, from whom you cannot hear words like “I will not comment on the words of this opposition criminal politician”. To what state it was necessary to bring her in order for her to utter such words. But our investigation did it - very nice. I hope there will be more comments on the matter, including from law enforcement agencies.

So that I live like this, Dimon!

I strongly advise you to watch the Anti-Corruption Foundation's film about Medvedev's dachas, vineyards, estates and yachts. And to look at it not even in order to find out which specific estates, apartments and mountain ranges belong to Dmitry Anatolyevich, how they look and where they are located. And to look in order to experience this feeling. This feeling does not necessarily mean indignation, disgust, or disgust. Although what you see is criminal and shameful for the country. Not! I'm talking about something else.

Here you look at all this splendor, and then listen to yourself. And inside, if not everyone, then very many will hear this insidious voice: “Damn! Yes, so that I live like this! " Looking at the pools and the elevator for the car and the marble staircase in the apartment like a palace, did you really not want to live the same way for a couple of days? And so that a mansion in St. Petersburg, and a villa of the 17th century in Italy, and a family estate in Kursk, and just an estate in Plyos! We are not holy ascetics or altruists. But for the most part we work a lot for little money. And here, on the screen, there is such a life that we cannot even dream of. But someone lives such a life, and we know this person, and he is one of those who control us!

At the end, Navalny says the words that are completely obvious, but that is why they are no less correct: there, at the heights of power, all this is not a secret - because at the heights of power they all live this way or something like that, in accordance with their posts and the degree of their insolence. And I would be surprised if there is at least someone among them who lives differently. And it is precisely for this that they strive for power. That is why power is the main asset in Russia. Not your talents, not your brains, not your resourcefulness or ingenuity - nothing matters here. Only position and authority matter.

In Russia, it makes no sense to become Elon Musk, because people who change the world are not needed here. Here we need people who will leave everything as before. Russia does not need people who earn money thanks to incredible technologies or modern industries. Because it is troublesome and time-consuming, and the risk is great. It is much easier and much faster to earn money as a prosecutor, judge, minister or even prime minister, as it turns out. More precisely, not to earn, but to receive.

In developed countries, money is important because it gives power. In Russia, on the contrary, the government gives money. And the power can take away the money. Ask Khodorkovsky, who was the richest man in the country and set out to change something in politics - what happened to him and did he like it? That is why the current oligarchs do not make the same mistakes and will donate billions to all sorts of phony funds and donate estates in order to remain oligarchs, and not sew mittens in the zone.

Navalny's film made powerful, but I doubt this film will blow up society. And not only because a smaller part of the population will know about it anyway. And also because millions of our fellow citizens themselves would like to live like this, and live like that, not thanks to their talents and enterprise, but in order to have power, and have everything that this power can give in our country. And she can give anything she wants - it would be fantasy and arrogance.

The Kremlin reacted to the FBK investigation of Medvedev's real estate in a day

The Kremlin "in detail" is not familiar with the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Fund about the real estate of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The investigation was published the day before, March 2. The Cabinet of Ministers said that it is pre-election in nature
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov answered the question of whether the head of state Vladimir Putin is familiar with the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny about the "secret real estate" of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, RBC correspondent reports.

“We are not familiar with the details. Media reports have been seen. These are not the first examples of the creativity of this famous convicted citizen. There is nothing to add to what was said by the press secretary of the prime minister, ”he said.

On the eve, commenting on the investigation, the press secretary of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Natalya Timakova said that the material had a pronounced pre-election character. “Navalny's material has a pronounced pre-election character, which he himself says at the end of the video. It is pointless to comment on the propaganda attacks of the opposition and convicted character, who stated that he is already conducting some kind of election campaign and is fighting the authorities, ”she said.

The FBK investigation was published the day before, on March 2. It says that Medvedev owns "huge plots of land in the most elite areas, manages yachts, apartments in old mansions, agricultural complexes and wineries in Russia and abroad."

The authors of the investigation draw their conclusions on the basis of data from Rosreestr, extracts from various registers of legal entities, as well as publications in the media and records in social networks. At the same time, the FBK points out that the real owner of the assets "is almost impossible to trace, since, being recorded in charity funds, they do not belong to anyone."

Such objects, according to FBK, are, in particular, real estate in the village of Znamenskoye not far from Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway, a manor in the Kursk region, a winery in Italian Tuscany and a number of others. Medvedev's property is managed by his friends, classmates and confidants, according to the investigation

The unexploded bomb effect: how the media did not notice Navalny's investigation of Medvedev

The FBK head Alexei Navalny called the investigation published by the Anti-Corruption Foundation about the “secret empire of Dmitry Medvedev” the most ambitious project of the foundation. The Russian media reacted differently to the investigation, many ignored the FBK publication. Not only federal TV channels, but also the media, which previously paid more attention to Navalny's publications, decided not to write or talk about the investigation.

TV and Radio

Federal TV channels Pervyi, Rossiya 1 and NTV never mentioned Navalny's investigation on their air, it follows from Medialogia's data prepared at Dozhd's request. Of the cable TV channels, RBC paid attention to the investigation (17 articles during the day). From information radio stations, the publication was discussed by Echo-Moskvy and Business FM - 33 and 4 items, respectively. Kommersant FM and Vesti FM did not tell about the investigation.

Newspapers

Of the newspapers published on Friday, only two publications wrote about Navalny's investigation: Vedomosti and Novaya Gazeta. The newspapers Kommersant, Izvestia, AiF, RBK, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Nezavisimaya Gazeta did not write anything about the oppositionist’s publication.

Vedomosti devoted the FBK publication to the column “New feedings” by Maria Zheleznova and Nikolai Epple in the opinion section, material with a retelling of the essence of the investigation “Premiere screening” on the second page, as well as the column of Maxim Trudolyubov “Inverted Tradition”.

Novaya Gazeta published the commentary "Reception against the successor." It called the investigation "weighty and uncompromising", having seen in the FBK publication the beginning of Navalny's election campaign. “Navalny's investigation highlights an unobvious fact: Dmitry Anatolyevich is really the second person in the state<…>To be honest, I don’t know who else in our country is allowed to have such a resource - financial and political, ”writes Aleksey Polukhin, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta.

Internet media

According to the Yandex-Novosti service, the first news of the investigation appeared in the online media at 13.15. Among the first to write about him were Mediazona, Republic, Echo of Moscow, RBC, Tsargrad (as well as Meduza, which is not indexed in the service). The Kommersant website (owned by businessman Alisher Usmanov, whom Navalny mentions in the investigation) at 15:48 published news under the heading "The Anti-Corruption Fund published another investigation." Forbes published a note about "the fate of the site from the investigation of Alexei Navalny." Life posted only a comment by Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova.

The websites of the three largest news agencies reacted to the investigation after Timakova's comment at 14:40. At the same time, "RIA Novosti" in its message did not retell the essence of the investigation. “Earlier, Navalny posted a film with an“ investigation ”against Medvedev. Its authors stated that they spent more than six months on collecting the material, ”RIA wrote.

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The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny has published an investigation into Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Earlier, FBK had already paid attention to the corruption ties and real estate of Dmitry Medvedev, having found his secret dacha in Ples. The new investigation "He's not Dimon for you. Palaces, yachts, vineyards - Dmitry Medvedev's secret empire" deals with real estate and expensive hobbies of the Russian prime minister.

According to the authors of the investigation, the image of an official, whom no one takes seriously, was created artificially. In fact, Dmitry Medvedev is "the creator and head of a huge, multilevel corruption scheme." In particular, according to FBK, the oligarch Alisher Usmanov presented the estate on Rublevka worth about 5 billion rubles to structures associated with Medvedev. The FBK called this "gift" a "bribe".

In addition, according to anti-corruption fighters, another estate on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway is associated with Medvedev, as well as a residence in the Kursk region, a mansion in St. Petersburg, two plots by the sea in the Krasnodar Territory, a mansion near Sochi, vineyards near Anapa and in Italy , and a manor in the Ivanovo region, which Navalny's associates announced last year.

The FBK investigation also reported about two yachts, which are registered to a structure close to Medvedev. Navalny claims that the volume of funds of funds and companies controlled by the head of government is at least 70 billion rubles. In addition to Usmanov, the sources of this money are the shareholders of the Novatek gas company Leonid Mikhelson and Leonid Simanovsky, as well as Gazprombank and Bashneft. Most of the funds, according to FBK, are withdrawn to offshore accounts.

Based on this information, Navalny accused Medvedev of creating a "multilevel corruption scheme" and "taking bribes from oligarchs." The oppositionist states that thousands of people are involved "in servicing the schemes" of the head of government, and his real estate is "guarded by state special services."

FBK employees found, described and documented that there is a network of charitable and non-profit foundations organized by the trustees and relatives of Dmitry Medvedev.

FBK employee Alexei Navalny told RFE / RL about how the investigation was conducted. Georgy Alburov:

- This is the largest FBK investigation that we have ever released - it is larger than Chaika and even more so than anything else that came before that. In late summer and early autumn, we released a large investigation, also on Medvedev, on Ples, on the residence, which was presented to him by the oligarchs Mikhelson and Simanovsky. And then we just followed the chain from this, found additional facts, found correspondence where he ordered clothes ...

So, in fact, tying together different facts, we eventually came to a whole grandiose corruption empire, where there are vineyards in Anapa, vineyards in Tuscany, a mountain residence, two estates on Rublevka ... It is difficult to describe this investigation in a few words, it is very large, and it simply shows that a person has spent 70 billion rubles on entertainment: palaces, vineyards, yachts. 70 billion rubles, which the oligarchs allocated to him when he was still president, and this money continues to be allocated to him.

- What are the sources of his income? Who gave and continues to give him money?

- In our investigation we paid great attention to this and very clearly described with evidence, with an invoice, where the money comes from. Oligarch Alisher Usmanov donated an estate on Rublevka worth 5 billion rubles, simply under a contract for donating real estate to a non-profit foundation controlled by Medvedev.

Oligarchs Mikhelson and Simanovsky donated 30 billion rubles as authorized capital to another fund. A large amount of money came in the form of loans from Gazprombank, where Ilya Eliseev, Medvedev's closest friend and colleague, works as vice-president, they studied together, wrote books. And if someone can personally call Medvedev "Dimon", then it is Ilya Eliseev. We have painted everything quite carefully, and a total of 70 billion rubles have been documented, all of which was spent on entertainment and on making Medvedev's life beautiful and wonderful.

- As far as I understand, you paid a lot of attention in your investigation to Dmitry Medvedev's foreign real estate ...

- Abroad, we found a company in Italy - Hatori de Layola, behind this company are hidden ancient vineyards in Tuscany, which used to belong to some Italian senator, and then, in 2012, from the family of this senator Ilya Eliseev bought these very vineyards. And along with the vineyards, there is also a beautiful 17th century villa, one and a half thousand square meters. We filmed it all, and of course it looks great and great! It is a pity, of course, that all this was stolen from you and me (you can see a lot of photos of the Italian castle and vineyards here)

- And where did he get such a passion for vineyards?

Medvedev has a huge passion for wine. He turns out to be a fan of winemaking

- It's true, we noticed that Medvedev has a huge passion for wine, winemaking and other things. In his correspondence there is a list of ten things to do: home theater, security, something else. And several of these ten points were dedicated to winemaking and wine: buy glasses, deliver wine between two residences ... It turns out that he really is such a fan of winemaking. And he has a million square meters of vineyards in Anapa and a million square meters of vineyards in Tuscany. And even the most important management company we found that runs this entire corrupt empire is called Meritage, which is a sort of American wine.

- Well, a person has such a hobby ...

- The person really has a hobby. A man goes skiing, loves wine, lives such a hedonistic life.

- Was it difficult for you to find all this property, vineyards? What sources did you use?

- Everything we have is based on open sources, we attach a reference to every word. This can be seen in the text version of our large investigation, everything is conveniently broken down into chapters, with links to documents, everyone can check, go right now and conduct the exact same investigation. They just walked step by step from one company to another, from one trusted person to another, and at some point the whole system closed. It would seem that different people from completely different companies began to intersect: in one company a person was a director, in another he became a founder.

How many people in the country are there who can be presented with an estate on Rublevka for 5 billion rubles?

But this whole scheme with proxies who meet here and there is united by one thing: it acts in the interests of Medvedev. And we prove it that he just even happens in these places. He rides yachts that are registered with the same company that vineyards in Italy are registered with. He rests every winter in a mountain residence, takes photos from there on Instagram. We flew up on a drone to this residence and specially removed the pipes - these were exactly the same pipes that Medvedev published on his instagram.

- What consequences of your investigation do you expect?

- We submitted an application to law enforcement agencies, because there is no other way to name what happened - there are real documented facts of bribes! When oligarch Usmanov gives President Medvedev an estate on Rublevka for 5 billion rubles, Medvedev's charitable foundation cannot be called anything other than a bribe. There is not an orphanage, not an animal shelter, there is a real estate, a palace, a residence - you can call it whatever you like. There are 40 thousand square meters of land and about 4 thousand square meters of buildings. It's just a palace that was donated by the oligarch Usmanov. How many people in the country are there who can be presented with an estate on Rublevka for 5 billion rubles? There are literally two of them, and one of them is Dmitry Medvedev.

- This is not your first investigation concerning Medvedev, Putin's friends, and Putin himself. If we make a rating of Russian corrupt officials, which of them will be at the top? Medvedev, the Rotenberg brothers, Sechin?

They steal as much as Putin allows them

- All this wealth that you are talking about is not the same wealth as that of American entrepreneurs, for example, from Silicon Valley. The wealth of these people is derived from the power that is established in Russia. If there is no Putin, these people will not have any wealth. Yes, they now use residences, many billions of rubles, but sooner or later it will all end. And I don't even see much point in making a rating. It is clear that all this is headed by Putin personally - he gives the opportunity to steal to the Rotenbergs, Medvedev and others, and they steal as much as they can steal, as much as Putin allows them to steal.

- Of course, this investigation can become an important part of the campaign against Putin and United Russia. And the fact that we did this investigation, of course, will deal a blow to the leader of United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev. And, of course, the dissemination of facts from this investigation, in my opinion, should become an important part of the election campaign.