Nabalni fights back… Putin’s Palace of Bribery exposes ’39 times the size of Monaco’

Russian opposition official Alexey Navalni, who was arrested upon returning home after being subjected to poisoning attacks, launched a counterattack against’static’ President Vladimir Putin. Officials on the Navalni side unveiled a luxury mansion on the coast of the Black Sea in southern Russia, known to be owned by President Putin on the 19th (local time).

‘The Navalni Team’ posted a 2-hour YouTube video titled’The Palace for Putin, the Story of a Giant Bribe’. Navalni, who appeared directly in the video, said, “This is the most expensive palace in the world.” therefore “Russia sells huge amounts of oil and gas, but the income of its citizens is falling. The reason for this palace”Said.

Located in Gelendzhik, a resort area on the Black Sea coast, this’Palace’ is equipped with luxurious facilities such as a huge mansion, a reception room, a conference hall, an amphitheater and a swimming pool on a site of 78 million square meters. “This place, which is 39 times the size of Monaco, is equipped with facilities such as an ice rink, a vineyard, and a heliport,” said Navalni. This is a great city, a kingdom. And only one tsar (emperor) lives here.”

Suspicions related to the Gellingzhik Palace have been raised steadily since 10 years ago. In an interview with the Financial Times (FT) in 2011, Sergei Colesnikov, a former executive at the Bank of Rossiya, told the Financial Times (FT), “Friends of Putin, the major shareholder of the Bank of Rossiya, focused their investment on the construction of resort complexes along the Black Sea after the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, we are putting all our efforts into creating the’Putin Palace’,” he said. “It was impossible for Rossiya Bank to grow dozens of times over the past 10 years without the protection of Putin.”

As controversy arose, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuted that “the mansion is not the property of President Putin.” “I don’t know exactly about the investigation,” he said. “The suspicion about the mansion is quite old. Years ago we explained that President Putin did not already own the mansion.”

German public broadcaster Deutsche Belle (DW) said, “The owner of the papers here is identified as a Russian billionaire businessman.” “The video shows that Navalni was recovering in Germany after being attacked using the poisonous nobichok in August. I made it.”

In Russia, a large-scale protest against Navalni is scheduled to be held on the 23rd. At the bottom of the video released by Navalni, “Navalni is always fighting for our rights. Now we have to fight for him” was inserted.

Immediately after Navalni was arrested at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport on the 17th, international demands for release are continuing, but the Russian side has not budged. “This is a domestic problem and interference will not be allowed” at a press conference on the 19th.

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